Journal article
Wavelet representation of light-front quantum field theory
Physical review. D, Vol.101(9), 096004
05/11/2020
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.096004
Abstract
A formally exact discrete multiresolution representation of quantum field theory on a light front is presented. The formulation uses an orthonormal basis of compactly supported wavelets to expand the fields restricted to a light front. The representation has a number of useful properties. First, light-front preserving Poincare transformations can be computed by transforming the arguments of the basis functions. The discrete field operators, which are defined by integrating the product of the field and a basis function over the light front, represent localized degrees of freedom on the light-front hyperplane. These discrete fields are irreducible and the vacuum is formally trivial. The light-front Hamiltonian and all of the Poincare generators are linear combinations of normal ordered products of the discrete field operators with analytically computable constant coefficients. The representation is discrete and has natural resolution and volume truncations like lattice formulations. Because it is formally exact, it is possible to systematically compute corrections for eliminated degrees of freedom.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Wavelet representation of light-front quantum field theory
- Creators
- W. N. Polyzou - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physical review. D, Vol.101(9), 096004
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.096004
- ISSN
- 2470-0010
- eISSN
- 2470-0029
- Publisher
- Amer Physical Soc
- Number of pages
- 25
- Grant note
- DE-SC16457 / U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Nuclear Theory Program; United States Department of Energy (DOE)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/11/2020
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984429026402771
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