Infra-red Divergences in Light-Front QED and Coherent State Basis

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We present a next to leading order calculation of electron mass renormalization in Light-Front Quantum Electrodynamics (LFQED) using old-fashioned time ordered perturbation theory (TOPT). We show that the true infrared divergences in δm² get canceled up to O(e⁴) if one uses coherent state basis instead of fock basis to calculate the transition matrix elements.