Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2000-12-08
Nucl.Phys.A716:158-168,2003
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
15 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0375-9474(02)01408-2
The Gupta-Bleuler formalism for photons is derived from induced representation theory. The representation for the little group for massless particles, the two dimensional Euclidian group, is chosen to be the four dimensional nonunitary representation obtained by restricting elements of the Lorentz group to the Euclidian group. Though the little group representation is nonunitary, it is shown that the representation of the Poincar\'{e} group is unitary. As a consequence of the four dimensional representation, the polarization vector, which connects the four-vector potential with creation and annihilation operators, is given in terms of boosts, coset representatives of the Lorentz group with respect to the Euclidian group. Several polarization vectors (boost choices) are worked out, including a front form polariation vector. The different boost choices are shown to be related by the analogue of Melosh rotations, namely Euclidian group transformations.
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