 Gupta-Bleuler quantization (source code)

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= Gupta-Bleuler quantization
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Gupta-Bleuler quantization keeps Lorentz covariance by first quantizing all four photon polarizations in an indefinite inner-product space. The condition $(\partial_\mu A^\mu)^{(+)}|\mathrm{phys}\rangle=0$, followed by quotienting null states, leaves the two transverse physical polarizations.

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