General formula for symmetry factors of Feynman diagrams

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(13)60003-8MaRDI QIDQ2393166zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 7 August 2013

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4142, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034487713600038

zbMATH Keywords

factorizationgeneral properties of perturbation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: General formula for symmetry factors (S-factor) of Feynman diagrams containing fields with high spins is derived. We prove that symmetry factors of Feynman diagrams of well-known theories do not depend on spins of fields. In contributions to S-factors, self-conjugate fields and non self-conjugate fields play the same roles as real scalar fields and complex scalar fields, respectively. Thus, the formula of S-factors for scalar theories --- theories include only real and complex scalar fields --- works on all well-known theories of fields with high spins.Two interesting consequences deduced from our result are : (i) S-factors of all external connected diagrams consisting of only vertices with three different fields, e.g., spinor QED, are equal to unity; (ii) some diagrams with different topologies can contribute the same factor, leading to the result that the inverse S-factor for the total contribution is the sum of inverse S-factors, i.e., 1/S = sum_i (1/S_i).

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