Checking the transverse Ward-Takahashi relation at one-loop order in four dimensions
Creators
- 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
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/32/2219/g6_11_014.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0954-3899/32/11/014;
- PII
- S0954-3899(06)27810-1;
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