Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-12-03
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A17 (2002) 1979-2017
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
26 pages, Revtex, revised version, Refs. added
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X02010662
A general calculational method is applied to investigate symmetry relations among divergent amplitudes in a free fermion model. A very traditional work on this subject is revisited. A systematic study of one, two and three point functions associated to scalar, pseudoscalar, vector and axial-vector densities is performed. The divergent content of the amplitudes are left in terms of five basic objects (external momentum independent). No specific assumptions about a regulator is adopted in the calculations. All ambiguities and symmetry violating terms are shown to be associated with only three combinations of the basic divergent objects. Our final results can be mapped in the corresponding Dimensional Regularization calculations (in cases where this technique could be applied) or in those of Gertsein and Jackiw which we will show in detail. The results emerging from our general approach allow us to extract, in a natural way, a set of reasonable conditions (e.g. crucial for QED consistency) that could lead us to obtain all Ward Identities satisfied. Consequently, we conclude that the traditional approach used to justify the famous triangular anomalies in perturbative calculations could be questionable. An alternative point of view, dismissed of ambiguities, which lead to a correct description of the associated phenomenology, is pointed out.
Battistel O. A.
Battistel O. L.
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