Light-Front Quantization of the Vector Schwinger Model with a Photon Mass Term in Faddeevian Regularization

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In this talk, we study the light-front quantization of the vector Schwinger model with photon mass term in Faddeevian Regularization, describing two-dimensional electrodynamics with mass-less fermions but with a mass term for the U(1) gauge field. This theory is gauge-non-invariant (GNI). We construct a gauge-invariant (GI) theory using Stueckelberg mechanism and then recover the physical content of the original GNI theory from the newly constructed GI theory under some special gauge-fixing conditions (GFC’s). We then study LFQ of this new GI theory.