On the Enumerative Structures in Quantum Field Theory

Abstract

This thesis addresses a number of enumerative problems that arise in the context of quantum field theory and in the process of renormalization. In particular, the enumeration of rooted connected chord diagrams is further studied and new applications in quenched QED and Yukawa theories are introduced. Chord diagrams appear in quantum field theory in the context of Dyson-Schwinger equations, where, according to recent results, they are used to express the solutions. In another direction, we study the action of point field diffeomorphisms on a free theory. We give a new proof of a vanishing phenomenon for tree-level amplitudes of the transformed theories.