Photon oscillator completeness and canonical brackets
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With real complete polarization vectors, the covariant photon Fock space oscillator commutators and imply the equal-time canonical commutation relations . The two mixed creation-annihilation terms add; the two coordinate-coordinate or momentum-momentum terms cancel after their polarization sums. The sign of the time-component oscillator is essential to the identity. Boundary-induced canonical transformation in Feynman gauge explains the momenta for the unsubtracted density.
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