Solution

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The naive equal-time canonical commutation relations would be
with all coordinate-coordinate, momentum-momentum and mixed conjugate-sector commutators zero before enforcing constraints. But the relation contradicts as an operator identity: its left side would vanish and its right side would not.
The primary zero-momentum constraints and the secondary massive Gauss laws form second-class constraints; their Poisson bracket matrix contains nonzero terms proportional to . They must be eliminated, or treated using a Dirac bracket, before quantization. In a reduced description the three complex spatial coordinates and their momenta are canonical, while
are dependent operators. Substituting them in the integrated Hamiltonian gives the positive density, up to a surface term,
Thus the problem is a constrained choice of canonical variables, not an absence of a consistent free quantum field theory.

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