Light-Cone Quantization of Gauge Fields

Abstract

Light-cone quantization of gauge field theory is considered. With a careful treatment of the relevant degrees of freedom and where they must be initialized, the results obtained in equal-time quantization are recovered, in particular the Mandelstam-Leibbrandt form of the gauge field propagator. Some aspects of the ``discretized'' light-cone quantization of gauge fields are discussed.

SMUHEP/93-20, 17 pages (one figure available separately from the authors). Plain TeX, all macros included

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