 Light cone gauge

In gauge field theory its standard form is $A^{+}=n_{\mu }{A}^{\mu }=0$ for a fixed null direction $n$. A light-cone gauge uses light-cone coordinates to fix a longitudinal variable, often choosing $x^{+}$ as the evolution parameter for a relativistic particle phase-space action. Related field gauges set selected minus components to zero when a field has the required gauge invariance. A massive field without that gauge freedom must instead eliminate dependent components through its equations of motion.