Checking the transverse Ward-Takahashi relation at one loop order in 4-dimensions
Abstract
Some time ago Takahashi derived so called {\it 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 & Yu have given an indicative proof at one-loop level in 4-dimensions. However, their construct involves the 4th rank Levi-Civita tensor defined only unambiguously in 4-dimensions exactly where the loop integrals diverge. Consequently, here we explicitly check the proposed transverse Ward-Takahashi relation holds at one loop order in -dimensions, with .
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0511254,
title = {Checking the transverse Ward-Takahashi relation at one loop order in 4-dimensions},
author = {M. R. Pennington and R. Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0511254},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
20 pages, 3 figures This version corrects and clarifies the previous result. This version has been submitted for publication