MULTIPLE POLES AND OTHER FEATURES OF AFFINE TODA FIELD-THEORY

Some perturbative features of affine Toda field theory are explored, in particular the mechanisms responsible for the first-, second- and third-order poles in the conjectured exact factorisable S-matrices in the ADE series of models. It is found that generic collections of Feynman diagrams are responsible for the leading order poles in any of the theories. However, the complexity is such that it has not yet proved possible to analyse all the singularities that occur up to order twelve. Some comments are made on an associated tiling problem and on an interesting connection between the affine Toda couplings and the Clebsch-Gordan decomposition of tensor products.