Published November 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Checking the transverse Ward-Takahashi relation at one-loop order in four dimensions

  • 1. Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE (United Kingdom)

Description

Some time ago Takahashi derived the so-called transverse relations relating Green's functions of different orders to complement the well-known Ward-Green-Takahashi identities of gauge theories by considering wedge rather than inner products. These transverse relations have the potential to determine the full fermion-boson vertex in terms of the renormalization functions of the fermion propagator. He and Yu have given an indicative proof at one-loop level in four dimensions. However, their construct involves the fourth-rank Levi-Civita tensor defined only unambiguously in four dimensions exactly where the loop integrals diverge. Consequently, here we explicitly check the proposed transverse Ward-Takahashi relation holds at one-loop order in d-dimensions, with d = 4 + ε

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/32/2219/g6_11_014.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics (ISSN 1361-6471) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
Journal Volume
32
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 2219-2233
ISSN
0954-3899
CODEN
JPGPED

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38010739
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSONS; FERMIONS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GREEN FUNCTION; INTEGRALS; PROPAGATOR; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RENORMALIZATION; TENSORS
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES