The electromagnetic and Proca fields revisited: a unified quantization.

DOI10.1142/S0217751X97001869MaRDI QIDQ2773921zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Manuel Calixto, Víctor Aldaya, Miguel Angel Navarro

Publication date 27 February 2002

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9609083

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: Quantizing the electromagnetic field with a group formalism faces the difficulty of how to turn the traditional gauge transformation of the vector potential, $A_{mu}(x)ightarrow{A}_{mu}(x)+partia{l}_{mu}varphi(x)$, into a group law. In this paper it is shown that the problem can be solved by looking at gauge transformations in a slightly different manner which, in addition, does not require introducing any BRST-like parameter. This gauge transformation does not appear explicitly in the group law of the symmetry but rather as the trajectories associated with generalized equations of motion generated by vector fields with null Noether invariants. In the new approach the parameters of the local group, $U(1)(vecx,t)$, acquire dynamical content outside the photon mass shell, a fact which also allows a unified quantization of both the electromagnetic and Proca fields.

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