A Fock representation for the physical vacuum based on the dynamical z
ero mode of the gauge field is suggested for the Schwinger model quant
ized on the light front. The theta-vacuum in terms of a gauge invarian
t superposition of zero-mode coherent states is shown to reproduce the
vacuum-angle dependence of the fermion condensate within the bosonize
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