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Light-Cone Quantization Without Periodic Boundary Conditions

arXiv:hep-th/0204028

Abstract

This paper describes a light-cone quantization of a two-dimensional massive scalar field without periodic boundary conditions in order to make the quantization manifestly consistent to causality. For this purpose, the field is decomposed by the Legendre polynomials. Creation-annihilation operators for this field are defined and the Fock space was constructed.

10 pages, 3 figures

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