Gupta--Bleuler quantization of free massless Lagrangian gauge fields of arbitrary helicity: The bosonic case

Journal Article · Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · J. Math. Phys. (N.Y.); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528287· OSTI ID:6391399

Doughty, N A; Arnold, R A

The Gupta--Bleuler canonical quantization procedure for free massless gaugefields is applied to the Lagrangian potentials of arbitrary integer helicity.The supplementary conditions required to limit the particle states to thephysical subspace of positive-definite metric and positive energy are explicitlyset out using procedures that are uniform for all spins, bosonic and fermionic.The well-known lower-spin results (spins 1 and 2), where some of the arbitraryspin features are vacuous, arise as special cases.

• Research Organization: Department of Physics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 1, New Zealand(NZ)
• OSTI ID: 6391399
• Journal Information: J. Math. Phys. (N.Y.); (United States), Journal Name: J. Math. Phys. (N.Y.); (United States) Vol. 30:7; ISSN JMAPA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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LIE GROUPS
LORENTZ GROUPS
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
POINCARE GROUPS
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QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
SCALAR FIELDS
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SUPERSYMMETRY
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SYMMETRY GROUPS
TRANSFORMATIONS