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In the traditional form of canonical quantization, certain field components (not having “conjugate” momenta) must be regarded as noncanonical. This long-known distinction enters modern gauge theories, when they are canonically quantized as by Kugo and Ojima. We avoid that peculiarity by not using any conjugate “momenta” at all. In our formulation, canonical quantization can be related to Feynman's path integral.
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Just, K., The, L.S. Canonical quantization without conjugate momenta. Found Phys 16, 1127–1141 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00761284
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