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Schwinger's Principle and Gauge Fixing in the Free Electromagnetic Field

C. A. M. de Melo, B. M. Pimentel, P. J. Pompeia

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0502229

Abstract

A manifestly covariant treatment of the free quantum eletromagnetic field, in a linear covariant gauge, is implemented employing the Schwinger's Variational Principle and the B-field formalism. It is also discussed the abelian Proca's model as an example of a system without constraints.

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