Parity and Front-Form Quantization of Field Theories

Abstract

Recently, we proposed a new front-form quantization which treated both the $x^{+}$ and the $x^{-}$ coordinates as front-form 'times.' This quantization was found to preserve parity explicitly. In this paper we extend this construction to fermion fields in the context of the Yukawa theory. We quantize this theory using a method proposed originally by Faddeev and Jackiw . We find that $P^-$ {\it and} $P^+$ become dynamical and that the theory is manifestly invariant under parity.