Saturday, April 6, 2019

homework and exercises - Double line notation - gluon propagator



Consider the following Feynman diagram for a gluon (there is momentum k flowing between the two points):


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Normally, the factor that goes along with this is Gabμν(k) = δabik2iϵ+(ημν+(ξ1)kμkνk2).


Using t'Hooft's double line formalism, the above diagram can be drawn as: enter image description here


My task is to give a guess as to what the corresponding factor should be. I think that it's G(ˉi,j)(ˉl,k)μν(k) = δjlδikik2iϵ+(ημν+(ξ1)kμkνk2)


However, this seems a little too simple and I'm worried that I'm missing out on a detail. When I google the "t'Hooft double line formalism" I find myself a lot of material, however I find that the discussion on the vertex factors is lacking (the same goes for the three- and four- gauge boson vertices). Can somebody either help me understand if I have the correct factor or point me in the direction of some literature that can?


(I should mention that the parameter ξ describes the gauge we're working in)


EDIT: I forgot to say that I'm talking about the U(N) gauge group.




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