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Past exam of the advanced quantum field theory for particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2017 2 a i Solution by
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Use the source term and left Grassmann functional derivatives. Differentiating its exponential inserts fields according toThe sign for follows because a left derivative with respect to must cross . Keep the order when replacing these fields. Expand in the original path integral; each field monomial can now be generated by these ordered derivatives acting on the free functional. Resumming givesThe arguments refer respectively to at . The free functional arises by performing the free Gaussian field integrals, and may be chosen so that .
No additional field-integration measure remains in this differential-operator formula. Such a measure is printed outside the operator in the source even though has already integrated out those fields. At , that literal expression would contain rather than simply , which is not the free generating functional. Also, when denotes a density, the spacetime integral in the exponent is required.
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