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:
Ifx0−y0=t,x−y=0⇒D(x−y)=14π2∫∞mdE√E2−m2e−iEt∼t→∞e−imt
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(x−y)=14π2∫∞mdE√E2−m2e−iEt=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|x−x0|∫∞0dppsin(p|x−x0|)e−it√p2+m2
Is this also obtained through a similar procedure?
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