Remarks on the effect of bound states and threshold in g-2

Abstract

Recently, the contribution of positronium bound states to the electron anomalous magnetic moment was computed in Refs.[1,2]. It was argued there that this O(alpha^5) contribution is missed if electron g-2 is calculated within conventional perturbative QED and, as such, it must be added to the perturbative five-loop result. We show that this conclusion is flawed and that no additional contributions to g-2 are generated in QED beyond the perturbation theory.

3 pages, v.2 mistake in the derivation corrected, discussion expanded, conclusions unchanged

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