Physics Letters B
Crossing-symmetric rings, ladders, and exchanges
Alexander Lande, R. A. Smith
Abstract
A new approach is used in the description of fermion and boson systems at zero or finite temperature. We generalize the familiar ladder and chaining operations to construct a crossing-symmetric approximation to the two-particle vertex from the bare interaction. The explicit rules for this construction are given in terms of Feynman propagators. The high level of symmetry of the vertex simplifies the theory. In one form, the structure appears as a generalization of parquet diagrams. The energy, self-energy, and vertex satisfy a number of consistency relations.