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1、QuantumChromodynamicsandOtherFieldTheoriesontheLightConeStanleyJ.Brodsky,StanfordLinearAcceleratorCenterStanfordUniversity,Stanford,California94309Hans-ChristianPauliMax-Planck-Institutfur?KernphysikD-69029HeidelbergStephenS.PinskyOhioStateUniversityColumbus,Ohio4321028
2、April1997arXiv:hep-ph/9705477v129May1997PreprintMPIH-V1-199712AbstractInrecentyearslight-conequantizationofquantumeldtheoryhasemergedasapromisingmethodforsolvingproblemsinthestrongcouplingregime.Theapproachhasanumberofuniquefeaturesthatmakeitparticularlyappealing,mostn
3、otably,thegroundstateofthefreetheoryisalsoagroundstateofthefulltheory.Wediscussthelight-conequantizationofgaugetheoriesfromtwoperspectives:asacalculationaltoolforrepresentinghadronsasQCDbound-statesofrelativisticquarksandgluons,andalsoasanovelmethodforsimulatingquantum
4、eldtheoryonacomputer.Thelight-coneFockstateexpansionofwavefunctionsprovidesaprecisedenitionofthepartonmodelandageneralcalculusforhadronicmatrixel-ements.Wepresentseveralnewapplicationsoflight-coneFockmethods,includingcalculationsofexclusiveweakdecaysofheavyhadrons,andi
5、ntrinsicheavy-quarkcontributionstostructurefunctions.Ageneralnon-perturbativemethodfornu-mericallysolvingquantumeldtheories,discretizedlight-conequantization",isoutlinedandappliedtoseveralgaugetheories.Thismethodisinvariantunderthelargeclassoflight-coneLorentztransfor
6、mations,anditcanbeformulatedsuchthatultravioletregularizationisindependentofthemomentumspacediscretiza-tion.Boththebound-statespectrumandthecorrespondingrelativisticlight-conewavefunctionscanbeobtainedbymatrixdiagonalizationandrelatedtechniques.Wealsodiscusstheconstruct
7、ionofthelight-coneFockbasis,thestructureofthelight-conevacuum,andoutlinetherenormalizationtechniquesrequiredforsolvinggaugetheorieswithintheHamiltonianformalismonthelightcone.CONTENTS3Contents1Introduction52HamiltonianDynamics122AAbelianGaugeTheory:QuantumElectrodynamic
8、s.............122BNon-AbelianGaugeTheory:QuantumChromodynamics..........162CParametrizationofSpace-Time.......