Stochastic quantization of a gauge field in the spatial axial gauge (Q582727)

Quantization of an Abelian gauge field in the spatial axial gauge can be consistently carried out by using the method of stochastic mechanics [see e.g. \textit{E. Nelson}, Quantum fluctuations (1985; Zbl 0563.60001)]. The method used here differs from that for the temporal-like gauges. The singularity at \(k_ 3=0\) that is characteristic of the spatial axial gauge (with gauge condition \(A_ 3=0)\) is left undefined in this stochastic formulation. However, any acceptable prescription used to regularize this singularity, for example the Vienna (or Mandelstam- Leibrandt) prescription, applies in this case.