Light-cone expansion of the Dirac sea to first order in the external potential

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1030132417zbMATH Open0963.81019arXivhep-th/9707128OpenAlexW3104968483MaRDI QIDQ1590959FDOQ1590959

Felix Finster

Publication date: 1 January 2001

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The perturbation of the Dirac sea to first order in the external potential is calculated in an expansion around the light cone. It is shown that the perturbation consists of a causal contribution, which describes the singular behavior of the Dirac sea on the light cone and contains bounded line integrals over the potential and its partial derivatives, and a non-causal contribution, which is a smooth function. As a preparatory step, we construct a formal solution of the inhomogeneous Klein-Gordon equation in terms of an infinite series of line integrals. More generally, the method presented can be used for an explicit analysis of Feynman diagrams of the Dirac, Klein-Gordon, and wave equations in position space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9707128

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac sea in position space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17)

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