Discretized light-cone quantization: Formalism for quantum electrodynamics
- 15 September 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 44 (6) , 1842-1865
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.44.1842
Abstract
A general nonperturbative method for solving quantum field theories in three space and one time dimensions, discretized light-cone quantization, is outlined and applied to quantum electrodynamics. This numerical method is frame independent and can be formulated such that ultraviolet regularization is independent of the momentum-space discretization. In this paper we discuss the construction of the light-cone Fock basis, ultraviolet regularization, infrared regularization, and the renormalization techniques required for solving QED as a light-cone Hamiltonian theory.Keywords
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