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Ultraviolet pole of QED fermion self-energy (ΣUV​=e2(−p+4m)/(16π2ϵ))

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In Feynman gauge, with insertion −iΣ(p) and d=4−2ϵ, the one-loop QED result is ΣUV​=e2(−p+4m)/(16π2ϵ). The coefficient of p is the electron kinetic counterterm δ2​=−e2/(16π2ϵ) when its insertion is ipδ2​. The scalar part fixes a separate mass counterterm in the chosen normalization convention.

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