Non-perturbative gauge transformations of arbitrary fermion correlation functions inquantum electrodynamics


Non-perturbative gauge transformations of arbitrary fermion correlation functions inquantum electrodynamics

Nicasio, J.; Edwards, J. P.; Schubert, C.; Ahmadiniaz, N.

We study the transformation of the dressed electron propagator and the general N-point functions under a change in the covariant gauge of internal photon propagators. We re-establish the well known Landau-Khalatnikov-Fradkin transformation for the propagator and generalise it to arbitrary correlation functions in configuration space, finding that it coincides with the analogous result for scalar fields. We comment on the consequences for perturbative application in momentum-space.

Keywords: LKF transformations; Worldline formalism; Dressed fermion propagator

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