Formulating light cone QCD on the lattice

We present the near light cone Hamiltonian H in lattice QCD depending on the parameter eta, which gives the distance to the light cone. Since the vacuum has zero momentum we can derive an effective Hamiltonian H-eff from H which is only quadratic in the momenta and therefore solvable by standard methods. An approximate ground state wave functional is determined variationally in the limit eta -> 0.