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Physlib.QFT.PerturbationTheory.WickAlgebra.StaticWickTheorem

Static Wick's theorem

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Static Wick's Theorem: ϕi=ΛstaticWickTerm(Λ)\prod \phi_i = \sum_{\Lambda} \text{staticWickTerm}(\Lambda)

Let F\mathcal{F} be a field specification and ϕ1,ϕ2,,ϕn\phi_1, \phi_2, \dots, \phi_n be a list of field operators in F\mathcal{F}. The static version of Wick's theorem states that the product of these operators in the Wick algebra is equal to the sum over all possible Wick contractions Λ\Lambda of the indices {0,1,,n1}\{0, 1, \dots, n-1\}: i=1nϕi=ΛWickContraction(n)staticWickTerm(ϕ1,,ϕn,Λ) \prod_{i=1}^n \phi_i = \sum_{\Lambda \in \text{WickContraction}(n)} \text{staticWickTerm}(\phi_1, \dots, \phi_n, \Lambda) where a Wick contraction Λ\Lambda is defined as a collection of disjoint pairs of indices representing field pairings, and staticWickTerm\text{staticWickTerm} is the mathematical term in the Wick algebra resulting from the specific contraction Λ\Lambda applied to the sequence of field operators.