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Checking the transverse Ward-Takahashi relation at one loop order in 4-dimensions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

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 dd-dimensions, with d=4+ϵd=4+\epsilon.

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@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

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