abstract:In quantum electrodynamics, the vertex function describes the coupling between a photon and an electron beyond the leading order of perturbation theory. In particular, it is the one particle irreducible correlation function involving the fermion \psi~, the antifermion \bar{\psi}, and the vector potential A.
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