A robust generalization of the Legendre transform for QFT

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA6ABBMaRDI QIDQ5272616zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David M. Jackson, Achim Kempf, Alejandro H. Morales

Publication date 30 June 2017

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00462

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrange inversionLegendre transformquantum effective actiontree enumeration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Special integral transforms (Legendre, Hilbert, etc.) (44A15) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18)

Abstract: Although perturbative quantum field theory is highly successful, it possesses a number of well-known analytic problems, from ultraviolet and infrared divergencies to the divergence of the perturbative expansion itself. As a consequence, it has been difficult, for example, to prove with full rigor that the Legendre transform of the quantum effective action is the generating functional of connected graphs. Here, we give a rigorous proof of this central fact. To this end, we show that the Legendre transform can be re-defined purely combinatorially and that it ultimately reduces to a simple homological relation, the Euler characteristic for tree graphs. This result suggests that, similarly, also the quantum field theoretic path integral, being a Fourier transform, may be reducible to an underlying purely algebraic structure.

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