21–25 Sept 2015
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati
Europe/Rome timezone

Two-dimensional light-front massless fields and solvable models

23 Sept 2015, 12:15
30m
Aula Bruno Touschek (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

Aula Bruno Touschek

Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati

Oral contribution 9.

Speaker

L. Martinovic

Description

One of the apparent problems of light front field theory has been a lack of description of two-dimensional massless fields. We show how both the massless scalar and fermion fields can be recovered as massless limits of the two-dimensional massive fields and consistenly quantized without any loss of physical information. Bosonization of the ligh-front (LF) fermion field then follows in a straightforward manner. Solvable models can also be studied directly in the LF formulation. We discuss the operator solution of the Thirring and Thirring-Wess models including the exact (nonperturbative) form of their correlation functions. A few remarks concerning the LF Schwinger model and the LF version of conformal symmetry conclude our contribution.

Primary author

L. Martinovic (Institute of Physics Slovak Academy of Sciences)

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