Regularization as quantization in reducible representations of CCR (Q873193)

A covariant quantization scheme employing reducible representations of canonical commutation relations with positive-definite metric and Hermitian four-potentials is tested on the example of quantum electromagnetic fields produced by a classical current. The Heisenberg dynamics can be consistently formulated since the fields are given by operators and not operator-valued distributions. The scheme involves a Hamiltonian whose free part is modified but the minimal-coupling interaction is the standard one. Solving Heisenberg equations of motion, the authors arrive at retarded and advanced solutions from which the form of evolution of retarded and advanced fields between two arbitrary finite times is deduced. Further photon statistics is computed. Poincaré covariance of the theory is discussed.