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Vector current conservation in vertex correction
Recently, I was calculating this observable:
$\langle p s|\bar\psi(0)\gamma^{\mu}\psi(0)|ps\rangle$
Where we only consider the QED case. $\psi$ corresponds to massless Dirac fermion field, p is the ...
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On the derivation of Ward-Takahashi identity
I am reading Weinberg's QFT book and in 10.4 he introduced a derivation of Ward-Takahashi identity (where $T$ is the time ordering):
$$\begin{align}
\frac{\partial}{\partial x^\mu}T{\{J^\mu(x)\Psi_n(y)...
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Use of classical equations of motion inside correlation functions
I am reading this paper by Zamolodchikov about the expectation value of $T \bar{T}$ in $2d$ QFT and I don't understand how he uses the classical equations of motion. For instance, classically, in any ...
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Applying Schwinger-Dyson equations within the LSZ formula
My problem will be formulated in terms of $\phi^3$ theory, and I would appreciate answers within the framework of $\phi^3$ or another scalar field theory. This question is to help me understand what ...
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Derivation of Holomorphic Ward Identities in Franceso's CFT
In equation 5.37 of francesco's CFT he writes the Ward Identities for traslation symmetry in the language of holomorphic functions. He goes from
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial}{\partial x^\mu} \...
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Ward identity for 'general' operator and current diagrams
This is actually about two related doubts and I hope is appropriate for a single question (if not, I will happily divide it). So, my problems are related to the analysis and calculation of chiral ...
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1-loop correction to photon propagator
(May be it is a duplicate). I do not understand clearly how should I write down 1-loop correction to photon propagator. I know what is $i\Pi_{\mu\nu}(k^2)$ (I need only this specific correction) and ...
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QCD gauge invariant amplitude?
In order to keep the correct degrees of freedom (which are 2) for massless gauge fields one imposes,
$$p^\mu \epsilon_\mu = 0 \tag1$$
Together with the gauge redundacy/equivalence relation,
$$\...
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Different Schwinger-Dyson Equations
In the literature on QFT there are a lot of different equations that are all called "Schwinger-Dyson equation" so I wanted to know how are they related and if they have proper names.
The first ...
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Conformal Ward identities for spinor operators
How do you derive conformal Ward identities for operators with spin?
You can see in Penedones's notes (page 6) ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.04948 ) a brief derivation of Ward identities for general ...
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Closed set of operators under renormalization
While reading the article http://inspirehep.net/record/61135, I came across the concept of "closed set under renormalization". The definition they give is the following.
In any renormalizable field ...
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Deriving Ward identity directly from a given formula for the conserved current only using the equal-time canonical commutation relation
I have a very technical question on deriving a Ward identity directly from a given explicit form of the "conserved current".
Let me emphasize that I do not start with an apriori knowledge on the ...
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Why are there no loop corrections to the photon mass? [duplicate]
I know that a question about why the photon is massless already exists, however it did not answer this question.
First off, I do understand why the photon does neither have a bare mass term due to ...
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Contact terms in derivation of Ward identity
(This post is a bit long; the key question is between the horizontal lines, and an example follows it.)
I am following the derivation of the Ward identity in Schwartz's QFT book, and there is a key ...
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Different forms of the Ward identities in CFT
In Tong's lecture notes on String theory, he shows the following Ward identity for CFT: (page 73)
Where $\delta$ is the variation w.r.t (infinitesimal) conformal transformations.
On the other hand, ...
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Is Ward identity really satisfied by the photon's self energy?
The one-loop self-energy of the photon,
,
when contracted with the external momentum $k^\mu$ gives the following difference of integrals where the integration variable in the first term is shifted ...
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Is there a relation between various vertices in Yang-Mills theory?
In Yang-Mills theories (and more complicated theories with additional matter fields) we have three and four gauge boson vertices, boson-ghost and boson-matter vertices. Perturbative divergences ...
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Conserved charge from Ward identity
I am going through the derivation of the Ward identities in chapter 2 of Di Francesco, Conformal Field Theory and I am not sure how they go from equation 2.157:
$$\frac{\partial}{\partial x^{\mu}}\...
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Ward Identity in non-abelian gauge theories
While in QED correlation functions including the photon field vanish when the Lorentz index of the gauge field is contracted with its own momentum (this fact is usually referred to as Ward Identity, ...
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Contact terms in proof of Ward identity
I'm confused about how a contact term vanishes when proving the Ward identity, i.e. the spot immediately following equation 5.52 in Weigand's notes. Spelling out everything concretely, we consider a ...
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Why does the Ward identity apply to the sum over all one-particle irreducible diagrams?
The Ward identity states that in a QED process with amplitude $\mathcal{M}(k)$ with one external photon with momentum $k$, given that we can write $\mathcal{M}(k)=\epsilon_\mu(k)\mathcal{M}^\mu(k)$ in ...
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Commutation of currents in QED
In an outline of a proof of the Ward identities in QED, the authors Green, Schwarz, and Witten in their book "Superstring theory", vol. I, Section 1.5.1,
claim that in the QED the electromagnetic ...
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The Ward identity, the Lorentz invariance
Outline - heuristic derivation of the Ward identity from the requirement of the Lorentz invariance
Suppose we have the free quantized gauge theory (with quanta called photons) with the Hilbert space ...
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Why does normal ordering violate the Ward identity?
It is well known that normal ordering the Lagrangian eliminates all Feynman diagrams with tadpoles$^{[1]}$. In the case of the photon self-energy in scalar QED, one of the diagrams is, in fact, a ...
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Why does the Ward identity hold for gauge theories?
I think that gauge invariance of a Lagrangian is not a sufficient condition for the Ward identity to be valid. So why does the Ward identity happen to hold in Yang-Mills theory, and maybe in many ...
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A question from Coleman's "aspects of symmetries''
I know this question is a bit specialized and require rather deep background on Coleman's book Aspects of Symmetries. And I am sorry for that.
But I still would like to ask the question and hope some ...
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Four-photon polarisation tensor in QED
Let's consider the four-photon polarisation tensor $\Pi^{\mu\nu\lambda\rho}$ in QED. It follows from Ward identity that
$$
k_1^\mu \Pi_{\mu\nu\lambda\rho}(k_1,k_2,k_3,k_4) = 0.
$$
After applying the ...
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Ward Identities And Normal Ordering From Path Integral
This question is about free field theories. One usually derives Ward identity from the path integral by considering the variation of the path integral under a symmetry. See for example page 41 of ...
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Gauge invariance or global invariance, which one makes theory renormalizable?
We know that gauge theory is renormalizable, due to the Ward-Takahashi identity (for non-Abelian theory, it is Slavnov-Taylor identity), which reflects the conserved current of gauge symmetry.
But ...
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A question about the Ward-Takahashi identity
I am studying Peskin and Schroeder's textbook of quantum field theory.
I have proceeded to Ward-Takahashi identity and have one question.
Eq.(7.66) and Eq.(7.67) are the two cases involved. Then ...
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Why does the violation of Ward identity not require cancellation of global anomalies?
This question is a continuation of the answer posted for this question about anomalies.
Is there a violation of the Ward identity associated with an anomalous global symmetry? If yes, why is the ...
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Integrated Ward Identity
Suppose you have the following ward identity : $$\int_{M} d^4x\ \epsilon(x)\ \partial_{\mu} \langle j_{\mu}(x)O(y)\rangle = - \ \langle\delta O(y)\rangle$$ where $\delta O(y)$ can be written in the ...
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Physical meaning of Ward Identity and computing vertex functions
Following the derivation of Ward Identity by Weinberg book, you get it in the form
$$
(l-k)_\mu S'(k)\Gamma^\mu(k,l)S'(l) = i S'(l) - iS'(k)
$$
Can anyone explain the physical meaning of this ...
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How to choose the proper loop correction?
I review my QFT lecture notes and I am having hard times to figure out the significance of Ward identity in vacuum polarization.
In class, we calculated one loop correction stated as
$$
i\Pi^{\mu\...
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How Ward Identity indicate vacuum polarization correction?
In Peskin & Schroeder Chapter 7.5 Renormalization of The Electric Charge, they mention that vacuum polarization correction is
$$
iM= (-ie)^2(-1)\int_{}{}\frac{d^4k}
{(2\pi)^4}Tr\bigg[\gamma^{\mu}\...
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QED and anomaly
I've just started to learn anomalies in quantum field theories. I have a question.
How to show that QED is free from vector current anomaly and what would happen if it were not? In other words, how ...
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Why should Ward identities only be used with the effective action (as opposed to the generating functional for connected diagrams)?
My question is about the derivation of Ward identities. I will sketch it here in the case of an O(N) symmetric model and point out what it bothering me when I am done. I am being very sloppy with the ...
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Charge renormalization point in massive abelian gauge theory
Let's assume massless QED. The Ward identities hold. Through this identity we determine the finite part of the counterterm when fix the value of electric charge to be the experimentally observed one:
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Why do Lorentz invariance and Ward identities imply the structure $\Pi(k^2)(k^2\eta^{\mu\nu}-k^{\mu}k^{\nu})$ for the photon self energy?
In the first page of this link we can read that Ward identities and Lorentz invariance make the form if the photon self-energy be
$$\Sigma^{\mu\nu}=\Pi(k^2)(k^2\eta^{\mu\nu}-k^{\mu}k^{\nu}).$$
Why?
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Propagation speed of photons when taking higher-order QFT corrections into account
In our group of experimental physicist who have nothing to do with and know very little about quantum field theory, we recently had a question concerning the propagation speed of photons in vacuum:
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Gauge invariance (QED)
In his book, the author says that according to
the Feynman diagrams of this process in QED $$e^+ e^- \rightarrow \gamma \gamma,$$ gauge invariance requires that $$k_{1\nu}(A^{\mu\nu} + \tilde{A}^{\...
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Ward identity derived from global symmetry and SDE, different from that derived from gauge symmetry?
In QED, according to Schwinger-Dyson equation $^{[1]}$,
$$\left(\eta^{\mu\nu}(\partial ^2)-(1-\frac{1}{\xi})\partial^{\mu}\partial^{\nu}\right)\langle 0|\mathcal{T}A_{\nu}(x)...|0\rangle = e\,\langle ...
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Ward identities and operator product expansions
Polchinski's (2.3.11) gives the Ward Identity
$$i\epsilon[Res_{z\rightarrow z_0}j(z)\mathcal A(z_0,\bar z_0)+\bar {Res}_{\bar z\rightarrow \bar z_0}\tilde j(\bar z)\mathcal A(z_0,\bar z_0)]=\delta\...
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Ward Identity in CFT
This is about Polchinski's eq(2.3.11).
It says that
$$Res_{z\rightarrow z_0}j(z)\mathcal A(z_0,\bar z_0)+\bar{Res}_{z\rightarrow z_0}\tilde j(\bar z)\mathcal A(z_0,\bar z_0)=\frac1{i\epsilon}\delta \...
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Can you gauge a $U(1)_L$ symmetry?
I recently calculating the one loop correction for the propagator of a gauge boson,
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I assumed arbitrary left and right couplings, $ g _L $ and $ g _R $. I found that the one loop ...
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Chiral Anomaly in Massless QED
Classical massless QED has axial current conservation. When quantizing the theory, we expect that suddenly $\partial_\mu \hat{j}^{\mu5}\neq0$ (as an operator equality).
I have two questions regarding ...
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The Ward identity for EM amplitude with massive vector boson
Let's have theory of massive vector boson interacting with EM field:
$$
L = |D_{\mu}W_{\nu} - D_{\nu}W_{\mu}|^{2} + m^{2}|W|^{2}, \quad D_{\mu} = \partial_{\mu} - ieA_{\mu}.
$$
The question: how to ...
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Constructing Ward identity associated with conserved currents
Consider constructing the Ward identity associated with Lorentz invariance. It is possible to find a 3rd rank tensor $B^{\rho \mu \nu}$ antisymmetric in the first two indices, then the stress-energy ...
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Correlation functions and connection to ward identities
I have the following definition of a general correlation function
$$
\langle \Phi(x_1)\dots \Phi(x_n)\rangle = \frac{1}{Z} \int [d\Phi] \Phi(x_1)\dots\Phi(x_n)e^{-S[\Phi]}
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I have only just ...
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Question on derivation of Ward identity
I'm currently reading these notes about the Ward identity (pages 259 - 261). I will repeat some of the steps to make the question self-contained.
Let us consider a local transformation on the field $\...
