Exact solutions to Pauli-Villars regulated field theories

Jul, 2001
20 pages
Published in:
  • Annals Phys. 296 (2002) 406-424
e-Print:
Report number:
  • SLAC-PUB-8920,
  • UMN-D-01-6,
  • SMUHEP-01-06

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Abstract:
We present a new class of quantum field theories which are exactly solvable. The theories are generated by introducing Pauli-Villars fermionic and bosonic fields with masses degenerate with the physical positive metric fields. An algorithm is given to compute the spectrum and corresponding eigensolutions. We also give the operator solution for a particular case and use it to illustrate some of the tenets of light-cone quantization. Since the solutions of the solvable theory contain ghost quanta, these theories are unphysical. However, we also discuss how perturbation theory in the difference between the masses of the physical and Pauli-Villars particles could be developed, thus generating physical theories. The existence of explicit solutions of the solvable theory also allows one to study the relationship between the equal-time and light-cone vacua and eigensolutions.
Note:
  • 20 pages, REVTeX; minor corrections to normalizations Report-no: SLAC-PUB-8920, UMN-D-01-6, SMUHEP/01-06
  • regularization: Pauli-Villars
  • quantization: light cone
  • model: Yukawa
  • vacuum state