{
  "id": "quant-ph/9511031",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1995-11-21T21:53:39.000Z",
  "updated": "1995-11-21T21:53:39.000Z",
  "title": "Quantum Electrodynamics at Large Distances II: Nature of the Dominant Singularities",
  "authors": [
    "Henry P. Stapp",
    "Takahiro Kawai"
  ],
  "comment": "40 pages, 11 encapsulated postscript figures, latexed, math_macros.tex can be found on Archive. full postscript available from http://theorl.lbl.gov/www/theorgroup/papers/35972.ps",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev. D52 (1995) 2505-2516",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.52.2505",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Accurate calculations of macroscopic and mesoscopic properties in quantum electrodynamics require careful treatment of infrared divergences: standard treatments introduce spurious large-distances effects. A method for computing these properties was developed in a companion paper. That method depends upon a result obtained here about the nature of the singularities that produce the dominant large-distance behaviour. If all particles in a quantum field theory have non-zero mass then the Landau-Nakanishi diagrams give strong conditions on the singularities of the scattering functions. These conditions are severely weakened in quantum electrodynamics by effects of points where photon momenta vanish. A new kind of Landau-Nakanishi diagram is developed here. It is geared specifically to the pole-decomposition functions that dominate the macroscopic behaviour in quantum electrodynamics, and leads to strong results for these functions at points where photon momenta vanish.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1995-11-21T21:53:39.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum electrodynamics",
      "large distances",
      "dominant singularities",
      "photon momenta vanish",
      "landau-nakanishi diagram"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. D"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 40,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 378309
    }
  }
}