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Phys. Rev. D 18, 1939–1949 (1978)

Number and weights of Feynman diagrams

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Predrag Cvitanović*
The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

B. Lautrup
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Robert B. Pearson
The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Received 19 June 1978; published in the issue dated 15 September 1978

The functional techniques of field theory are adapted to the problem of evaluating sums of combinatoric and group-theoretic weights of Feynman diagrams in φN, quantum electrodynamics and non-Abelian theories. Considered are various classes of diagrams such as connected, one-particle-irreducible, and skeleton diagrams. For finite orders exact sums are given by compact recursion formulas. For higher orders estimates are obtained from the exact results or by steepest-descent methods.

© 1978 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.18.1939
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10.1103/PhysRevD.18.1939
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*Current address: Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.