Analytic structure of ^4 theory using light-by-light sum rules

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Analytic structure of \(\phi^4\) theory using light-by-light sum rules



Abstract: We apply a sum rule for the forward light-by-light scattering process within the context of the phi4 quantum field theory. As a consequence of the sum rule a stringent causality criterion is presented and the resulting constraints are studied within a particular resummation of graphs. Such resummation is demonstrated to be consistent with the sum rule to all orders of perturbation theory. We furthermore show the appearance of particular non-perturbative solutions within such approximation to be a necessary requirement of the sum rule. For a range of values of the coupling constant, these solutions manifest themselves as a physical bound state and a K-matrix pole. For another domain however, they appear as tachyon solutions, showing the inconsistency of the approximation in this region.












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