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    Two-loop two-point functions with masses: asymptotic expansions and Taylor series, in any dimension

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    In all mass cases needed for quark and gluon self-energies, the two-loop master diagram is expanded at large and small q2q^2, in dd dimensions, using identities derived from integration by parts. Expansions are given, in terms of hypergeometric series, for all gluon diagrams and for all but one of the quark diagrams; expansions of the latter are obtained from differential equations. Pad\'{e} approximants to truncations of the expansions are shown to be of great utility. As an application, we obtain the two-loop photon self-energy, for all dd, and achieve highly accelerated convergence of its expansions in powers of q2/m2q^2/m^2 or m2/q2m^2/q^2, for d=4d=4.Comment: 25 pages, OUT--4102--43, BI--TP/92--5
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