Sharee J. McNab, Richard J. Blaikie
Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings
Feynman diagrams are usually derived in relativistic space and time, and then immediately converted into energy and momentum by a Fourier transform. A method is proposed that allows keeping the external vertices at fixed locations and finite times, while the internal vertices are integrated in space-time as well. Propagators between the vertices are the well-known Bessel functions of the relativistic distance. The example of the Compton effect is worked out.