Recursive graphical construction of feynman diagrams and their multiplicities in straight phi(4) and straight phi2A theory
The free energy of a field theory can be considered as a functional of the free correlation function. As such it obeys a nonlinear functional differential equation that can be turned into a recursion relation. This is solved order by order in the coupling constant to find all connected vacuum diagrams with their proper multiplicities. The procedure is applied to a multicomponent scalar field theory with a straight phi(4) self-interaction and then to a theory of two scalar fields straight phi and A with an interaction straight phi2A. All Feynman diagrams with external lines are obtained from functional derivatives of the connected vacuum diagrams with respect to the free correlation function. Finally, the recursive graphical construction is automatized by computer algebra with the help of a unique matrix notation for the Feynman diagrams.
Kleinert
H
Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Freie Universitat Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Pelster
A
Kastening
B
Bachmann
M