Causality and unitarity via the tree-loop duality relation

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)148zbMATH Open1396.81184arXiv1701.07052MaRDI QIDQ683059FDOQ683059

E. T. Tomboulis

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The tree-loop duality relation is used as a starting point to derive the constraints of causality and unitarity. Specifically, the Bogoliubov causality condition is ab initio derived at the individual graph level. It leads to a representation of a graph in terms of lower order cut graphs. Extracting the absorptive part gives then the general unitarity relation (Cutkosky rule). The derivation, being carried out directly in momentum space, holds for any local (polynomial) hermitian interaction vertices. This is in contrast to the technical difficulties arising from contact terms in the spacetime approach based on the largest time equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07052

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zbMATH Keywords

duality in gauge field theoriesscattering amplitudesBogoliubov causality condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman diagrams (81T18) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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