Published March 15, 1982 | Version v1
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Cluster irreducibility of the third and fourth Legendre transforms in quantum field theory

  • 1. Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Y4

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Let GAMMA/sup( r/) be the rth Legendre transform of the generating functional of the Euclidean Green's functions of a boson quantum field theory. We formulate and prove the r-cluster-irreducibility properties of GAMMA/sup( r/) for r< or =4. In particular, the rth-order vertex functions GAMMA/sup( r/)/sub n/ are r-irreducible and the rth-order Bethe-Salpeter kernels are r-channel-irreducible. Our definition of irreducibility is independent of perturbation theory, being based on Spencer's idea of t-derivatives

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
25
Journal Issue
6
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1565-1578
ISSN
0556-2821