The resurgence of instantons: multi-cut Stokes phases and the Painlevé II equation

DOI10.1007/s00220-014-2028-7zbMath1312.81092arXiv1302.5138OpenAlexW2014327939MaRDI QIDQ2509635

Ricardo Schiappa, Ricardo Vaz

Publication date: 29 July 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5138

zbMATH Keywords

random matricesmatrix modelresurgent transserieslarge N expansionnon-perturbative phenomena

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Special quantum systems, such as solvable systems (81Q80)

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