Lessons from discrete light-cone quantization for physics at null infinity: bosons in two dimensions

Autor: Glenn Barnich, Sucheta Majumdar, Simone Speziale, Wen-Di Tan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2024, Iss 5, Pp 1-46 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2024)326
Popis: Abstract Motivated by issues in the context of asymptotically flat spacetimes at null infinity, we discuss in the simplest example of a free massless scalar field in two dimensions several subtleties that arise when setting up the canonical formulation on a single or on two intersecting null hyperplanes with a special emphasis on the infinite-dimensional global and conformal symmetries and their canonical generators, the free data, a consistent treatment of zero modes, matching conditions, and implications for quantization of massless versus massive fields.
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