QUANTIZATION OF GAUGE FIELD-THEORIES ON THE FRONT FORM WITHOUT GAUGE CONSTRAINTS - THE ABELIAN CASE

Recently, we proposed a new front-form quantization which treated both the x(+) and the x(-) coordinates as front-form ''times.'' This quant ization was found to preserve parity explicitly. In this paper we exte nd this construction to local Abelian gauge fields. We quantize this t heory using a method proposed originally by Faddeev and Jackiw. We emp hasize here the feature that quantizing along both x(+) and x(-) gauge theories does not require extra constraints (also known as ''gauge co nditions'') to determine the solution uniquely.