Monday, November 26, 2018

integration - Asymptotic behaviour of the propagator for a scalar field


When discussing causality in Chapter 2 of Peskin & Schroeder a couple of equations giving the asymptotic behaviour of the propagator for a scalar field appear:


Ifx0y0=t,xy=0D(xy)=14π2mdEE2m2eiEtteimt

Ifx0y0=0,xy=rD(xy)=14π2rmdρρeρrρ2m2remr



I can't see how you derive these asymptotic behaviours (I have no problem deriving the integral exact expressions, but then I get stuck). All I could do was to rewrite the first integral as follows:


D(xy)=14π2mdEE2m2eiEt=m4π2itK1(imt)


using this article on modified Bessel functions of the second kind. But checking with Mathematica, this vanishes for t. For the second integral I don't have any clue, so any help would be more than welcome!


Extra (but related) question:


In the first discussion of the chapter something similar appears


U(t)=12π2|xx0|0dppsin(p|xx0|)eitp2+m2


Is this also obtained through a similar procedure?




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