Abstract
The energy dispersion for arbitrary momentum of a polaron in n dimensions is calculated by the Rayleigh-Schr\"odinger perturbation theory and by a modified Brillouin-Wigner perturbation theory. For the energy and effective mass of the polaron ground state, both methods give results that agree with the results of V. V. Paranjape and P. V. Panjat [Phys. Rev. B 35, 2942 (1987)] to linear order in the polaron coupling constant \ensuremath{\alpha}. The self-energy shifts are progressively weakened with increasing dimension. In particular, this weakening occurs for the structure in the energy dispersion near the momentum value at which the polaron starts decaying via the emission of phonons.
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