We consider in this work the electromagnetic current for a system composed by two charged bosons and show that it has a structure of many bodies even in the impulse approximation, when described in the light front time x + . In terms of the two-body component for the bound state, the current contains two-body operators. We discuss the process of pair creation from the interacting photon and interpret it as a zero mode contribution to the current and its consequences for the components of currents in the light-front.

Na teoria quântica de campos usual, descrita no espaço-tempo de Minkowski, os conceitos de partícula e antipartícula surgem associados aos estados de energia positiva e negativa respectivamente. Nesse artigo focando como público alvo alunos de pós-graduação em Física, discutimos de maneira pedagógica como esses conceitos podem ser ou não transferidos quando fazemos uma mudança de coordenadas, do espaço-tempo de Minkowski para as coordenadas do cone de luz. Concluímos que nessas novas coordenadas temos uma arbitrariedade na escolha, uma vez que o sinal da energia fica atrelado ao sinal da componente longitudinal do momento no cone de luz. Embora haja essa arbitrariedade, a correlação de sinal que existe entre a energia e o momento longitudinal implica profundas consequencias físicas. Momentos positivos implicam energias positivas e momentos negativos implicam energias negativas. Isso significa, por exemplo, que no vácuo quântico da frente de luz não pode haver produção de pares partículas e antipartículas, ao contrário do que ocorre no espaço de Minkowski usual. Palavras-chave: teoria quântica de campos, espaço de Minkowski, cone de luz, antipartículas.In the usual quantum theory of fields, as described in the Minkowski space-time, the concepts of particle and antiparticle appear associated with positive and negative energy states respectively. In this article, which is directed to graduate students in physics, we discussed in a pedagogical way how these concepts can be transferred when we make a change of coordinates, from the Minkowski space-time to the coordinates of the light cone. We conclude that these new coordinates have an arbitrary choice, once the sign of the energy is coupled to the sign of the longitudinal component of the momentum in the light cone. Although there is this arbitrariness, the sign correlation between the energy and the longitudinal momentum implies profound physical consequences. Positive momenta imply positive energy, and negative momenta imply negative energies. This means, for example, that in the quantum vacuum of the light front there cannot be any pair production of particle and antiparticle, unlike what happens in the usual Minkowski space.

The use of light front coordinates in quantum field theories (QFT) always brought some problems and controversies. In this work we explore some aspects of its formalism with respect to the employment of dimensional regularization in the computation of the photon's self-energy at the one-loop level and how the fermion propagator has an important role in the outcoming results.

Abstract. We show that the electromagnetic current for a system composed by two charged bosons has a structure of many bodies even in the impulse approximation, when described in the time x + . In terms of the two body component for the bound state, the current contains two body operators. We discuss the process of pair creation by the photon and interpret it as a zero mode contribution to the current and its consequences for the components of currents in the light front.

On a three-dimensional symmetric Ising tetrahedron and contributions to the theory of the dilogarithm and Clausen functions Abstract. We use dimensional regularization (DR) to evaluate a one-loop four-point function to order g 2 in a scalar φ 4 model using the light-front coordinates and performing the light-front energy variable integration in the first place. The DR in the light-front is applied to the D − 2 transverse variables. We show the equivalence of the result thus obtained with the standard DR applied to D dimensions.