Comparing phenomenological recipes with a microscopic model for the electric amplitude in strangeness photoproduction

Corrections to the Born approximation in photoinduced strangeness production off a proton are calculated in a semirealistic microscopic model. The vertex corrections and internal contributions to the amplitude of the gammap-->K+Lambda reaction are included on the one-loop level. Different gauge-invariant phenomenological prescriptions for the modification of the Born contribution via the introduction of form factors and contact terms are discussed. In particular, it is shown that the popular minimal-substitution method of Ohta corresponds to a special limit of the more realistic approach.