I did the computation of the propagator in two dimensions at (19.26) in Peskin & Shroeder as follows.
First I performed a Wick rotation.
∫d2k(2π)2e−ik⋅(y−z)ikμγμk2=−∂μγμ(i∫d2kE(2π)2eikE⋅(yE−zE)1−k2E)=i4π2∂μγμ∫∞0dkEkE1k2E∫2π0dθeikE|yE−zE|cosθ=i4π2∂μγμ∫∞0dkEkE1k2E2πJ0(kE|yE−zE|)
where J0(s) is a bessel function and I made use of Hansen-Bessel Formula.
Setting s≡kE|yE−zE|
=i2π∂μγμ∫∞0ds1sJ0(s)=0
Answer
After you take γμ∂μ out of the integral sign, the integral becomes divergent, so this step is not guaranteed by theorems from calculus and apparently illegal. But I think your calculation can be continued in the following (heuristic) way.
Let →k denote the momentum in Euclidean space and k its norm, and r=|→y−→z|. In order to take ∂μ out, we can introduce a cut off ϵ, which is a positive small number, then the integration becomes limϵ→0i2π∫∞ϵdk(γμ∂μ)J0(kr)k=limϵ→0i2π(γμ∂μ)∫∞ϵ⋅rdsJ0(s)s
In the expansion of J0(s): J0(s)=sin(s)s=1−13!s2+...
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