Effective Fermion-Photon Vertex in a Rotating Relativistic Medium: Tree-Level Structure
Abstract
We study the tree-level fermion-photon effective vertex for on-shell particles in a relativistic environment undergoing rigid rotation at zero temperature. The rotational background breaks translational invariance in the transverse plane and introduces a preferred direction, leading to a distinct decomposition of the vertex into longitudinal and transverse structures with respect to the rotation axis. Using fermion and photon modes constructed in the rotating frame, we derive the corresponding selection rules and show that the energy and the longitudinal component of the momentum are conserved, whereas no independent transverse momentum-conservation condition arises. Instead, the transverse dependence is governed by radial integrals involving three Bessel functions, whose support constrains the magnitudes of the transverse momentum projections. The vertex can be organized in a circular basis for the transverse components and a Cartesian basis along the rotation axis, and expressed in terms of six Dirac structures. Their coefficients define 24 form-factor components associated with the photon-mode components, physical photon states, and spin-dependent structures induced by the rotating background. We also verify current conservation and gauge invariance of the resulting tree-level matrix element under the boundary conditions considered. These results provide the tree-level structure of the fermion-photon interaction in rotating relativistic matter and establish the basis for the study of radiative corrections in vortical backgrounds.
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BibTeX
@misc{castanoyepes2026effective,
title = {{Effective Fermion-Photon Vertex in a Rotating Relativistic Medium: Tree-Level Structure}},
author = {Jorge David Castaño-Yepes and Alejandro Ayala and J. E. Martínez-Herrera and Enrique Muñoz},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.19124},
eprint = {2610.19124},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.19124},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Effective Fermion-Photon Vertex in a Rotating Relativistic Medium: Tree-Level Structure
AU - Jorge David Castaño-Yepes
AU - Alejandro Ayala
AU - J. E. Martínez-Herrera
AU - Enrique Muñoz
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.19124
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.19124
AB - We study the tree-level fermion-photon effective vertex for on-shell particles in a relativistic environment undergoing rigid rotation at zero temperature. The rotational background breaks translational invariance in the transverse plane and introduces a preferred direction, leading to a distinct decomposition of the vertex into longitudinal and transverse structures with respect to the rotation axis. Using fermion and photon modes constructed in the rotating frame, we derive the corresponding selection rules and show that the energy and the longitudinal component of the momentum are conserved, whereas no independent transverse momentum-conservation condition arises. Instead, the transverse dependence is governed by radial integrals involving three Bessel functions, whose support constrains the magnitudes of the transverse momentum projections. The vertex can be organized in a circular basis for the transverse components and a Cartesian basis along the rotation axis, and expressed in terms of six Dirac structures. Their coefficients define 24 form-factor components associated with the photon-mode components, physical photon states, and spin-dependent structures induced by the rotating background. We also verify current conservation and gauge invariance of the resulting tree-level matrix element under the boundary conditions considered. These results provide the tree-level structure of the fermion-photon interaction in rotating relativistic matter and establish the basis for the study of radiative corrections in vortical backgrounds.
ER -