The t-J model is studied using a novel and rigorous mapping of the Gutzwiller
projected electrons, in terms of canonical electrons. The mapping has
considerable similarity to the Dyson-Maleev transformation relating spin
operators to canonical Bosons. This representation gives rise to a non
Hermitean quantum theory, characterized by minimal redundancies. A path
integral representation of the canonical theory is given. Using it, the salient
results of the extremely correlated Fermi liquid (ECFL) theory, including the
previously found Schwinger equations of motion, are easily rederived. Further a
transparent physical interpretation of the previously introduced auxiliary
Greens functions and the caparison factor is obtained.
The low energy electron spectral function in this theory with a strong
intrinsic asymmetry, is summarized in terms of a few expansion coefficients.
These include an important emergent energy scale $\Delta_0$ that shrinks to
zero on approaching the insulating state, thereby making it difficult to access
the underlying low energy Fermi liquid behavior. The scaled low frequency ECFL
spectral function is related simply to the Fano line shape. The resulting
energy dispersion (EDC or MDC) is a hybrid of a massive and a massless Dirac
spectrum $ E^*_Q\sim \gamma\, Q- \sqrt{\Gamma_0^2 + Q^2} $, where the vanishing
of $Q$, a momentum like variable, locates the kink. Therefore the quasiparticle
velocity interpolates between $(\gamma \mp 1)$ over a width $\Gamma_0$ on the
two sides of $Q=0$. The resulting kink strongly resembles a prominent low
energy feature seen in angle resolved photoemission spectra (ARPES) of cuprate
materials. We also propose novel ways of analyzing the ARPES data to isolate
the predicted asymmetry between particle and hole excitations.