Quantization of gauge field theories on the front form without gauge constraints: The Abelian case.

Recently, we have proposed a new front-form quantization which treated both the x and the x− coordinates as front-form ’times.’ This quantization was found to preserve parity explicitly. In this paper we extend this construction to local Abelian gauge fields . We quantize this theory using a method proposed originally by Faddeev and Jackiw . We emphasize here the feature that quantizing along both x and x− , gauge theories does not require extra constraints (also known as ’gauge conditions’) to determine the solution uniquely. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D ⋆ Work supported by the Department of Energy, contract DE–AC03–76SF00515. † [email protected]