A new local and lorentz-covariant solution of the schwinger model

We present a local, manifestly Lorentz-covariant operator solution of the Schwinger model for arbitrary gauge. The main features of our solution are: (i) there is a unique normalizable translation-invariant state, (ii) the electric and chiral charge are not spontaneously broken, i.e. they generate implementable symmetry transformations, (iii) on the physical subspace the vacuum is degenerate in energy with an infinite number of states of nonzero chirality, (iv) the electromagnetic tensor is simply proportional to a massive pseudo-scalar field.