Algebraic cutting equations

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2018.04.034MaRDI QIDQ1647991zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Damiano Anselmi

Publication date 27 June 2018

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07148

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityrenormalizationsymmetriesquantum field theoryunitarityperturbative expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18)

Abstract: The cutting equations are diagrammatic identities that are used to prove perturbative unitarity in quantum field theory. In this paper, we derive algebraic, upgraded versions of them. Differently from the diagrammatic versions, the algebraic identities also holds for propagators with arbitrary, nonvanishing widths. In particular, the cut propagators do not need to vanish off shell. The new approach provides a framework to address unsolved problems of perturbative quantum field theory and a tool to investigate perturbative unitarity in higher-derivative theories that are relevant to the problem of quantum gravity, such as the Lee-Wick models and the fakeon models.

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• Fakeons and Lee-Wick models
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• Fakeons and Lee-Wick models
• Complex-mass scheme and perturbative unitarity
• The in-out formalism for in-in correlators
• Algebraic aspects of cut elimination
• The generalized good cut equation
• Diagrammar of physical and fake particles and spectral optical theorem
• Unitarity of the box diagram
• Algebraic cuts

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