One loop Volkov propagator in the Lorentz class of gauges

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2019.135021MaRDI QIDQ2187239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Martin Lavelle, David McMullan

Publication date 2 June 2020

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10228

zbMATH Keywords

loopslaserQEDgauges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We calculate the ultraviolet divergences in a weak field expansion of the Volkov propagator. This is done for the full Lorentz class of gauges. The expected gauge invariance of the vacuum mass shift in each sideband is recovered. However, the renormalisation of the background induced mass shift is shown to be gauge dependent. In particular, we show that it vanishes in Landau gauge. We find that only in that gauge does the vacuum renormalisation remove all ultraviolet divergences.

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