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A special structure of the scattering operator and infrared divergences in quantum electrodynamics

Mathematical Physics 2016-12-20 v3 math.MP Spectral Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We assume that the unperturbed operators A0A_0 are known. Then, the fact that the scattering operators SS and the unperturbed operators A0A_0 are pairwise permutable provides some important information about the structure of the scattering operators. Using this information and the ideas from the theory of generalized wave operators, we present a new approach to the divergence problems in quantum electrodynamics. We show that the so called infrared divergences appeared because the deviations of the initial and final waves from the free waves were not taken into account.

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@article{arxiv.1606.06759,
  title  = {A special structure of the scattering operator and infrared divergences in quantum electrodynamics},
  author = {Lev Sakhnovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.06759},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This paper is closely connected with our paper arXiv:1602.07087 and developes further some important results from arXiv:1602.07087. In the current version, we add some results on a special structure of the scattering operators and use these results in order to justify our approach to divergence problems