TY - JOUR 
A1 - Aldaya Valverde, Víctor
AU - Navarro, Miguel
AU - Calixto Molina, Manuel
T1 - The Electromagnetic and Proca Fields Revisited: a Unified Quantization
Y1 - 1997
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/513
UR - arXiv:hep-th/9609083v1
AB - Quantizing the electromagnetic field with a group formalism faces the difficulty of how to turn the traditional gauge transformation of the vector potential, Aμ(x) → Aμ(x) + ∂μϕ(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)(~x, t), acquire dynamical content outside the photon mass shell, a fact which also allows a unified quantization of both the electromagnetic and Proca fields.
KW - Matemática Aplicada
KW - Campos electromagnéticos Proca
KW - Cuantización unificada
LA - eng
PB - World Scientific Publishing Company
ER -