Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-09-02
J.Math.Phys. 41 (2000) 6689-6746
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
59 pages, LaTeX (published version)
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1290379
We study the Dirac sea in the presence of external chiral and scalar/pseudoscalar potentials. In preparation, a method is developed for calculating the advanced and retarded Green's functions in an expansion around the light cone. For this, we first expand all Feynman diagrams and then explicitly sum up the perturbation series. The light-cone expansion expresses the Green's functions as an infinite sum of line integrals over the external potential and its partial derivatives. The Dirac sea is decomposed into a causal and a non-causal contribution. The causal contribution has a light-cone expansion which is closely related to the light-cone expansion of the Green's functions; it describes the singular behavior of the Dirac sea in terms of nested line integrals along the light cone. The non-causal contribution, on the other hand, is, to every order in perturbation theory, a smooth function in position space.
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