Feynman graph representation of the perturbation series for general functional measures (Q2573499): Difference between revisions

A representation of the perturbation series of a general functional measure is given in terms of generalized Feynman graphs and rules. Here the graphical calculus is applied to functional measures of Lévy type. The authors introduce the graphical notion of Wick ordering and compare it with the orthogonal decomposition of the Wiener-Itô-Segal type. It is shown that the linked cluster theorem for Feynman graphs extends to generalized Feynman graphs. The authors prove perturbatively the existence of the thermodynamic limit for the free energy density and the moment functions. The results are applied to the gas of charged microscopic or mesoscopic particles -- neutral in average -- in two dimensions, generating a static field with quadratic energy density which gives rise to pair interaction. The pressure function is calculated up to fourth order for this system. It is discussed, how one can subtract the logarithmically divergent self-energy terms for a gas of only one particle type by a local counter-term of first-order.