An introduction to resurgence, trans-series and alien calculus

DOI10.1016/j.aop.2019.167914zbMath1425.81003arXiv1411.3585OpenAlexW1550848762WikidataQ114953137 ScholiaQ114953137MaRDI QIDQ2335983

Daniele Dorigoni

Publication date: 18 November 2019

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3585

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionMorse theoryalien calculusresurgence theorynon-perturbative methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16)

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