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Past exam of the quantum field theory course of the University of Oxford 2017 1 d Solution by
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The two oscillator families commute with each other. Their canonical commutation relations giveBoth terms in the mode expansion of a free field therefore acquire the same factor, givingThe Noether charge is the generator of the internal symmetry. In the active-operator convention , repeated commutators giveThe sign agrees with part b. A negative sign for would correspond to the opposite current convention, not to the current used here. Subtracting a multiple of the identity from to fix the vacuum Noether charge has no effect on this generator relation.
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