The Paradigm of a transverse Area Structure for Lightfront Degrees of Freedom

It is shown that the degrees of freedom on the lightfront align themselves in such a way that it is enough to know their properties in one strip in lightlike direction of unit transversal size; a transversal tensor product foliation accounts for a Bekenstein-like area law of additive quantities as the entropy. This behavior is independent of details of models and we propose it as the basic local quantum physics analog of the Bekenstein area law. The field-coordinatization independent algebraic formulation in terms of operator algebras is essential for understanding this rearrangement of degrees of freedom in the process of (algebraic) lightfront holography.