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arxiv: 1309.5890 · v1 · pith:NTRDRESRnew · submitted 2013-09-23 · ✦ hep-ph

Covariant Photon Quantization in the SME

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keywords photonquantizationprocedureapplicationappliedbleulercasecovariance
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The Gupta Bleuler quantization procedure is applied to the SME photon sector. A direct application of the method to the massless case fails due to an unavoidable incompleteness in the polarization states. A mass term can be included into the photon lagrangian to rescue the quantization procedure and maintain covariance.

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