Name: Vladyslav Shtabovenko Date: 11/04/15-07:18:54 PM Z


NDR just tells you that in D-dimensions g^5 anticommutes with all other
Dirac matrices. However, this statement is not sufficient to define
traces with an odd number of g^5 matrices unambiguously. This is why you
need an additional prescription that tells you how to compute such
traces with anticommuting g^5.

If you don’t specify such a prescription, FeynCalc refuses to compute
the trace in NDR, as it would give a non-sensical result.

However, FeynCalc works not only with NDR, but also the the “non-naive
scheme”.

So, you can either use the t’Hooft-Veltman-Maison-Breitenlohner scheme,
where g^5 is not anticommuting,

<<http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.cmp/1103900439>>

$Larin = False;
$West = True;
$BreitMaison = True;

DiracTrace[
 DiracGamma[LorentzIndex[Lor1, D], D].DiracGamma[Momentum[Lor2, D],
   D].DiracGamma[LorentzIndex[Lor3, D], D].DiracGamma[
   Momentum[Lor4, D], D].DiracGamma[LorentzIndex[Lor5, D],
   D].DiracGamma[Momentum[Lor6, D], D].DiracGamma[5],
 DiracTraceEvaluate -> True]

or if you want to stick with the anitcommuting g^5, you can use the
Larin-Gorishny-Akyeampong-Delburgo prescription
(<<http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9302240.pdf>>)

$Larin = True;
$West = False;
$BreitMaison = False;

DiracTrace[
 DiracGamma[LorentzIndex[Lor1, D], D].DiracGamma[Momentum[Lor2, D],
   D].DiracGamma[LorentzIndex[Lor3, D], D].DiracGamma[
   Momentum[Lor4, D], D].DiracGamma[LorentzIndex[Lor5, D],
   D].DiracGamma[Momentum[Lor6, D], D].DiracGamma[5],
 DiracTraceEvaluate -> True]

Cheers,
Vladyslav

Am 04.11.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Sun Qingfeng:
> I noticed that in dimensional regulation, the NDR scheme is adopted in FeynCalc 9.0. When I deal with the DiracTrace below:
> DiracTrace[
> DiracGamma[LorentzIndex[Lor1, D], D].DiracGamma[Momentum[Lor2, D],
> D].DiracGamma[LorentzIndex[Lor3, D], D].DiracGamma[
> Momentum[Lor4, D], D].DiracGamma[LorentzIndex[Lor5, D],
> D].DiracGamma[Momentum[Lor6, D], D].DiracGamma[5]]
> There will be warnings, So how can I deal with the DiracTrace above in dimensional regulation with FC9.0?
>
> Thanks alot!
>
> Sun Qingfeng
>