Quantum electrodynamics in the null-plane causal perturbation theory II
arXiv:2211.07784 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.096024
Abstract
We develop a complete formulation of quantum gauge invariance in light-front dynamics for interacting theories with massless vector gauge fields in the framework of null-plane causal perturbation theory. We apply the general results to quantum electrodynamics, showing that the so-called "gauge terms" present in the photon commutation distribution when quantized under the null-plane gauge condition have no contribution in the calculation of the physical S-operator matrix elements at any order. We use this result to prove the normalizability of the theory, and to calculate the electron's self-energy at second order.
To be published in Phys. Rev. D