Solution

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Choose the zero of energy so that the translation-invariant vacuum state has . A one-particle state of rest mass obeys the relativistic energy-momentum relation
The translation covariance of a quantum field in c remains valid for the full interacting four-momentum operator. Acting its exponential functions on the two momentum eigenstates gives
Here . A different additive vacuum energy must be subtracted consistently from both energy eigenvalues before identifying the physical .

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