Analytic Form of the One-loop Vertex and of the Two-loop Fermion Propagator in 3-Dimensional Massless QED

Abstract

We evaluate the analytic expression for the one-loop fermion-boson vertex in massless QED3 in an arbitrary covariant gauge. The result is written in terms of elementary functions of its momenta. The vertex is decomposed into a longitudinal part, that is fully responsible for ensuring the Ward and Ward-Takahashi identities are satisfied, and a transverse part. Following Ball and Chiu and K{\i}z{\i}lers\"{u} {\it et. al.}, the transverse part is written in its most general form as a function of 4 independent vectors. We calculate the coefficients of each of these vectors. We also check the transversality condition to two loops and evaluate the fermion propagator to the same order. We compare our results with a conjecture of the non-perturbative vertex by Tjiang and Burden.