The Electromagnetic and Proca Fields Revisited: a Unified Quantization
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We all wish to thank J. Guerrero for valuable discussions. M. C. and M. N. are grateful to the Spanish M.E.C. for a F.P.I. and postdoctoral F.P.U. grant, respectively, and M. N. to the Imperial College for its hospitality.Publication date
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ALDAYA VALVERDE, Victor, CALIXTO MOLINA, Manuel, NAVARRO, Miguel. The Electromagnetic and Proca Fields Revisited: a Unified Quantization. International Journal of Modern Physics A, 12 (20): 3609-3623, 1997. DOI 10.1142/S0217751X97001869Keywords
Campos electromagnéticos ProcaCuantización unificada
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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.
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