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Two-loop two-point functions with masses: asymptotic expansions and Taylor series, in any dimension
In all mass cases needed for quark and gluon self-energies, the two-loop
master diagram is expanded at large and small , in 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
, and achieve highly accelerated convergence of its expansions in powers of
or , for .Comment: 25 pages, OUT--4102--43, BI--TP/92--5