Thanks for your reply.
But then I don't understand why the double bubble diagram has a symmetry factor of 2.
According to what you are saying, it should have a symmetry factor of 4, shouldn't it ?
edit: Sorry I was confused. It works. There is actually a symmetry factor of 8
Yes you are right. I mean that like "a", "d" can only be mapped to itself, because it has a hermitian propagator loop attached, and this is the only hermitian propagator loop of the diagram
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In the book Quantum Field for mathematician, there is this Wick diagram as an example to understand how to compute the symmetry factor (I am sorry, I draw it with paint...)
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The S-matrix is defined as the inner product of the in- and out-states, as in Eq. (3.2.1) in Weinberg's QFT vol 1:
S_{βα}=(Ψ−β,Ψ+α)
\Psi_{±α} are the eigenstates of the full Hamiltonian with a non-zero interaction term.
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