Consistent perturbative light front formulation of quantum electrodynamics

(light-front "temporal" gauge). It is shown that this formulation leads to the Mandelstam-Leibbrandt causal prescription for the non-covariant singularities in the photon propagator. Furthermore, it is proved that the dimensionally regularized one loop off-shell amplitudes exactly coincide with the correct ones, as computed within the standard approach using ordinary space-time coordinates.

quantum electrodynamics
quantization: light front
Hamiltonian formalism
fermion
photon: propagator
perturbation theory
regularization: dimensional

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