On convergence of form factor expansions in the infinite volume quantum sinh-Gordon model in \(1+1\) dimensions (Q6107880): Difference between revisions

The author develops a technique allowing one to prove the convergence of a class of series of multiple integrals which corresponds to the form factor expansion of space-like separated two-point functions in the \((1+1)\) dimensional massive integrable Sinh-Gordon quantum field theory. The convergence of the form factor expansion of Sinh-Gordon quantum field theory is a long-standing open problem whose resolution is the main result of this paper. At the beginning of the paper, the author reviews the bootstrap program that characterizes form factors using 4 axioms and gives explicit expressions for the form factors of local operators in the \((1+1)\) dimensional Sinh-Gordon model. Following that, the author presents the general structure of the form factor expansion of two-point functions and establish an upper bound for the \(N^{\mathrm{th}}\) summand of this series. The author shows that the large-\(N\) behavior of this upper bound can be estimated by solving a minimization problem and that the characterization of the minimizer can be reduced to the resolution of a singular integral equation of truncated Wiener-Hopf type. The author develops the nonlinear steepest descent solution of an auxiliary matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem whose solution plays a central role in the inversion of the singular integral operator arising in the characterization of the minimizer. Using these results carries out large-\(N\) estimates of the minimization problem that allows one to conclude the convergence of the series.