Abstract
When the light-cone quantization procedure is applied to massless fields care must be taken or the resulting theory will not be isomorphic to the equivalent theory quantized at equal times. The special considerations necessary for massless fields are described here and their application to recently presented calculations in 1+1 dimensions are discussed.
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McCartor, G. Light-cone quantization for massless fields. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 41, 271–275 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01566926
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01566926