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Transverse Ward-Takahashi Relation for the Fermion-Boson Vertex Function in 4-dimensional QED

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

I present a general expression of the transverse Ward-Takahashi relation for the fermion-boson vertex function in momentum space in 4-dimensional QED, from which the corresponding one-loop expression is derived straightforwardly. Then I deduce carefully this transverse Ward-Takahashi relation to one-loop order in d-dimensions, with d=4+ϵd = 4 + \epsilon. The result shows that this relation in d-dimensions has the same form as one given in 4-dimensions and there is no need for an additional piece proportional to (d4)(d-4) to include for this relation to hold in 4-dimensions. This result is confirmed by an explicit computation of terms in this transverse WT relation to one-loop order. I also make some comments on the paper given by Pennington and Williams who checked the transverse Ward-Takahashi relation at one loop order in d-dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0606057,
  title  = {Transverse Ward-Takahashi Relation for the Fermion-Boson Vertex Function in 4-dimensional QED},
  author = {Han-xin He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0606057},
  year   = {2009}
}

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