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Tomonaga's Conjecture on Photon Self-Energy

General Physics 2011-02-16 v1

Abstract

We investigate Tomonaga's conjecture that the self-energy of photon should vanish to zero. In fact, the contribution of photon's self-energy diagram violates the Lorentz invariance and therefore it is unphysical. In addition, there occurs no wave function renormalization of photon in the exact Lippmann-Schwinger equation for the vector potential and this confirms that the conjecture is correct. Further, it is shown that the gauge condition kμΠμν(k)=0 k_\mu \Pi^{\mu \nu}(k) =0 of the vacuum polarization tensor does not hold and the relation is obtained simply due to a mathematical mistake in replacing the integration variables in the infinite integral.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1102.2974,
  title  = {Tomonaga's Conjecture on Photon Self-Energy},
  author = {Takehisa Fujita and Naohiro Kanda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.2974},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, no figure

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