Abstract
Making use of functional-integration techniques, we calculate the formal free energy of a polaron in the subspace of fixed total momentum Q. Utilizing this result, we prove an analytical expression for the polaron mass. We include numerical results of variational and Monte Carlo types. As a by-product, we comment on the position of the continuum edge of the polaronic energy spectrum for fixed Q.
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