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Canonical Light-Cone Commutators

John M. Cornwall* and R. Jackiw*,†

  • Department of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024

  • *Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow.
  • Permanent address: Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139.

Phys. Rev. D 4, 367 – Published 15 July, 1971

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.4.367

Abstract

We study the canonical structure of current commutators on the light cone, as embodied in Kogut and Soper's formulation of quantum electrodynamics in the infinite-momentum frame. These commutators incorporate dynamical information far beyond that contained in conventional equal-time commutation relations. An analog of the Bjorken-Johnson-Low limit is developed for calculating matrix elements of light-cone commutators from conventional time-ordered products. Some apparently new sum rules for electroproduction are obtained. They relate Fourier transforms of structure functions to bilocal products of operators. We suggest possible directions for constructing phenomenological light-cone commutators in hadronic physics. These commutators can be used to describe entire Regge trajectories, and might find application to electroproduction and neutrino-induced production experiments.

Comments & Replies

Eikonal Approximation and the Light Cone

E. Eichten
Phys. Rev. D 5, 1047 (1972)

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