Renormalized electron mass in nonrelativistic QED (Q625465)

Fröhlich and Pizzo consider a single nonrelativistic spinless particle (i.e. an electron) minimally coupled to the quantized radiation field (i.e., to photons). They concentrate on problems connected with the renormalized particle mass, trying to controll the radiative corrections as long as an infrared cutoff \(\sigma>0\) is imposed on the photon frequency. Although electrons exhibit an infraparticle behavior when \(\sigma\to 0\), the mass formula is expected still to make sense in that limit. The coupling constant is assumed to be sufficiently small and energies are small compared to the rest mass. The energy function of the dressed particle is proven to be twice differentiable with respect to the momentum and its second derivative is bounded below by some positive constant. The whole procedure relies on the so-called iterative analytic perturbation theory as developed in detail by Pizzo in 2003.