Quantization of Free Spin-Two Fields on the Light Front
- 15 November 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 8 (10) , 3382-3392
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.8.3382
Abstract
We show that the free spin-two fields, both massless and massive, can be consistently quantized on a light-front surface, . In this formulation, the massless theory is easily shown to be the limit of the massive theory as .
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