The Epstein-Glaser causal approach to the light-front QED₄. II: Vacuum polarization tensor

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.10.005MaRDI QIDQ527696zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors B. M. Pimentel, D. E. Soto, R. Bufalo

Publication date 12 May 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1909

zbMATH Keywords

Epstein-Glaser causal methodlight-front field theoriesradiative correction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: In this work we show how to construct the one-loop vacuum polarization for light-front QED${}_4$ in the framework of the perturbative causal theory. Usually, in the canonical approach, it is considered for the fermionic propagator the so-called instantaneous term, but it is known in literature that this term is controversial because it can be omitted by computational reasons; for instance, by compensation or vanishing by dimensional regularization. In this work we propose a solution to this paradox. First, in the perturbative causal theory, it is shown that the fermionic propagator does not have instantaneous terms, and with this propagator we calculate the one-loop vacuum polarization, from the calculation it follows the same result as obtained by the standard approach, but without reclaiming any extra assumptions. Moreover, since the perturbative causal theory is defined in the distributional framework, we can also show the reason behind we obtaining the same result whether we consider or not the instantaneous fermionic propagator term.

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