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Gauge Dependence of Four-Fermion QED Green Function and Atom-Like Bound State Calculations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-01 v2

Abstract

We derive a relation between four-fermion QED Green functions of different covariant gauges which defines the gauge dependence completely. We use the derived gauge dependence to check the gauge invariance of atom-like bound state calculations. We find that the existing QED procedure does not provide gauge invariant binding energies. A way to a corrected gauge invariant procedure is pointed out.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9502364,
  title  = {Gauge Dependence of Four-Fermion QED Green Function and Atom-Like Bound State Calculations},
  author = {Grigorii B. Pivovarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9502364},
  year   = {2016}
}

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10 pages, latex, no figures, lines longer than 80 char corrected