DEGENERATE SYSTEMS AND MASS SINGULARITIES
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4137551
For a system with degenerate energies, the power series expansions of the s-matrix elements may become singular. An elementary quantum mechanical theorem is proved which shows that under certain general conditions such singularities do not appear in the power series expansions of the transition probabilities, provided these are averaged over an appropriate ensemble of degenerate states. Application of the theorem leads to cancellations of mass singularities and infra-red divergences in quantum electrodynamics. The possibility of a charged particle with zero mass is considered. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Columbia Univ., New York
- NSA Number:
- NSA-18-002685
- OSTI ID:
- 4137551
- Report Number(s):
- TID-19672
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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