The signed permutation group on Feynman graphs

DOI10.1063/1.4961517MaRDI QIDQ2820908zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Julian Purkart

Publication date 12 September 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02408

zbMATH Keywords

Feynman integralsFeynman rulesgraph theoryHopf algebarpermutation group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Hopf algebras and their applications (16T05) Symmetric groups (20B30) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18)

Abstract: The Feynman rules assign to every graph an integral which can be written as a function of a scaling parameter L. Assuming L for the process under consideration is very small, so that contributions to the renormalizaton group are small, we can expand the integral and only consider the lowest orders in the scaling. The aim of this article is to determine specific combinations of graphs in a scalar quantum field theory that lead to a remarkable simplification of the first non-trivial term in the perturbation series. It will be seen that the result is independent of the renormalization scheme and the scattering angles. To achieve that goal we will utilize the parametric representation of scalar Feynman integrals as well as the Hopf algebraic structure of the Feynman graphs under consideration. Moreover, we will present a formula which reduces the effort of determining the first-order term in the perturbation series for the specific combination of graphs to a minimum.

Review text

The self-contained article discusses the action of permutations on Feynman graphs. In the preliminaries Section II, all necessary ingredients are defined in a detailed way such that also the non-expert gets the basic knowledge on graphs, Feynman graphs, 1PI graphs, trees and forests. The pedagogic review continues with Feynman graph polynomials and the Hopf algebra of rooted trees. As the topic thankfully allows, everything is accompanied with illustrative figures.NEWLINENEWLINEIncreasingly more detailed and technical, the following sections give a short introduction into parametric renormalization and the signed graph permutations which are the actual core of that work.NEWLINENEWLINEUnfortunately, style and notation are very far away from typical applications in phenomenological quantum field theory. A direct impact on the existing techniques of handling Feynman integrals seems not apparent although understanding the symmetries of Feynman graphs may help to vastly simplify the calculations.

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