A115974 Number of Feynman diagrams (vanishing and non-vanishing) of order 2n for the proper self-energy function of quantum electrodynamics (QED).

1, 2, 6, 42, 414, 5058, 72486, 1182762, 21573054, 434358018, 9565348806, 228740050602, 5904853053534, 163728751178178, 4855046674314726, 153367360732387242, 5143219420761900414, 182530741698302811138, 6835913695777897799046, 269455018264860747728682, 11152465473005099074500894, 483617145128737549802831298

Offset: 0

Author

R. J. Mathar, Mar 15 2006

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

The number of diagrams of A000698 left if the connected improper diagrams are removed: a(n)<=A000698(n+1). G.f. is essentially the inversion of the G.f. of A000698.

From Groux Roland, Mar 22 2011: (Start)

a(n) is the INVERTi transform of A001147(n+2), starting at n=2.

Let rho(x)=sqrt(x)*exp(-x/2)/sqrt(2*Pi); s(x)=integral(rho'(t)*log(abs(1-t/x)),t=0..infinity), and mu(x)=rho(x)/((s(x))^2+Pi^2*(rho(x))^2), then a(n+1) is the moment of order n for the measure of density mu(x) over the interval 0..infinity.

(End)

Vanishing diagrams: QED diagrams containing electron loops with an odd number of vertices are set to 0 (Furry theorem). See comments in A000698. This sequence (which is twice A167872(n-1) for n>=1) counts all the diagrams (vanishing and non-vanishing) for the self-energy function of QED. The sequence A005412 gives the number of non-vanishing diagrams for the self-energy. - Robert Coquereaux, Sep 12 2014

Examples

			There are A000698(3)=10 self-energy diagrams of order 4, (n=2). Four of them are chained diagrams of order 2, (n=1) (of two kinds) which are simply connected, which leaves 10-4=6=a(2) proper diagrams.
		

References

• A. L. Fetter and J. D. Walecka, Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems, McGraw-Hill, 1971.

Links

• Alois P. Heinz, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..400
• P. Cvitanovic, B. Lautrup and R. B. Pearson, The number and weights of Feynman diagrams, Phys. Rev. D 18 (1978), 1939-1949.
• R. J. Mathar, Table of Third and Fourth Order Feynman Diagrams of the Interacting Fermion Green's Function, Int. J. Quantum. Chem. 107 (10) (2007) 1975-1984.
• Adrian Ocneanu, On the inner structure of a permutation: bicolored partitions and Eulerians, trees and primitives; arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.1263 [math.CO], 2013.
• Wikipedia, Feynman diagram

Crossrefs

Cf. A000698, A005411, A005412, A167872.

Programs

Maple

A000698 := proc(n::integer) local resul,fac,pows,c,c1,p,i ; if n = 0 then RETURN(1) ; else pows := combinat[partition](n) ; resul := 0 ; for p from 1 to nops(pows) do c := combinat[permute](op(p,pows)) ; c1 := op(1,c) ; fac := nops(c) ; for i from 1 to nops(c1) do fac := fac*doublefactorial(2*op(i,c1)-1) ; od ; resul := resul-(-1)^nops(c1)*fac ; od : fi ; RETURN(resul) ; end:
A115974 := proc(n::integer) local resul,m ; resul := A000698(n+1) ; for m from 1 to n-1 do resul := resul-A115974(m)*A000698(n+1-m) ; od: RETURN(resul) ; end:
for n from 1 to 20 do printf("%a,",A115974(n)) ; od ; # R. J. Mathar, Apr 24 2006

Mathematica

(* b = A000698 *) b[n_] := b[n] = (2n-1)!! - Sum[b[n-k]*(2k-1)!!, {k, n-1}]; a[0] = 1; a[n_] := a[n] = b[n+1] - Sum[a[m]*b[n+1-m], {m, n-1}]; Array[a, 22, 0] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jul 10 2017 *)

Formula

a(n) = A000698(n+1) - Sum_{m=1..n-1} a(m)*A000698(n+1-m).

1-Sum_{n>=1} a(n)*x^n = 1/(1+Sum_{n>=1} A000698(n+1)*x^n) (G.f.)

G.f. 2 - Q(0) where Q(k) = 1 - (k+2)*x/Q(k+1); (continued fraction, 1-step). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Aug 20 2012

G.f. 2 - x - x/(Q(0)-1) where Q(k) = 1 + (4*k+1)*x/(1 - (4*k+3)*x/((4*k+3)*x + 1/Q(k+1))); (continued fraction, 3rd kind, 3-step). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Sep 12 2012

G.f.: 2 + x/(G(0)-1) where G(k) = 1 - x*(k+1)/G(k+1); (recursively defined continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Dec 10 2012

G.f.: 2 - G(0) where G(k) = 1 + (2*k+1)*x - x*(2*k+3)/G(k+1); (recursively defined continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, Dec 26 2012

G.f.: 2 - x - Q(0), where Q(k) = 1 - x*(2*k+3)/(1 - x*(2*k+2)/Q(k+1)); (continued fraction). - Sergei N. Gladkovskii, May 21 2013

Call Sf the G.f. for the sequence 1, 2, 10, 74, ..., i.e., A000698 with first term (equal to 1) dropped. Call Sigmaf the G.f. for the sequence 0, 2, 6, 42, ..., i.e., this sequence A115974 with a first term of order 0 (equal to 0) added. Then Sf = 1/(1-Sigmaf). - Robert Coquereaux, Sep 14 2014

a(n) ~ 2^(n + 3/2) * n^(n+1) / exp(n). - Vaclav Kotesovec, Jan 02 2019

Extensions

More terms from R. J. Mathar, Apr 24 2006, Nov 07 2006

Name and definition clarified by Robert Coquereaux, Sep 14 2014

a(0)=1 prepended by Alois P. Heinz, Jun 22 2015