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Four-gauge-boson vertex in non-Abelian gauge theories
In Peskin & Schroeder's book page 524, the following diagram is calculated for the gauge boson self-energy in order $g^2$:
In dimensional regularization, its contribution is given by
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Can a photon see ghosts?
Does it make sense to introduce Faddeev–Popov ghost fields for abelian gauge field theories?
Wikipedia says the coupling term in the Lagrangian "doesn't have any effect", but I don't really know ...
