Diffeomorphisms of scalar quantum fields via generating functions

DOI10.4171/AIHPD/161MaRDI QIDQ6081309zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ali Mahmoud, Karen Yeats

Publication date 25 October 2023

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D. Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12341

zbMATH Keywords

Bell polynomialsfield diffeomorphismsgenerating functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Graphs, diagram schemes, precategories (18A10) Special integral transforms (Legendre, Hilbert, etc.) (44A15) Topological properties of groups of homeomorphisms or diffeomorphisms (57S05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

Abstract: We study the application of formal diffeomorphisms to scalar fields. We give a new proof that interacting tree amplitudes vanish in the resulting theories. Our proof is directly at the diagrammatic level, not appealing to the path integral, and proceeds via a generating function analysis so is more insightful than previous proofs. Along the way we give new combinatorial proofs of some Bell polynomial identities, and we comment on the connection with the combinatorial Legendre transform.

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