Convergence of scaled delta expansion: Anharmonic oscillator (Q1898380)

We prove that the linear delta expansion for energy eigenvalues of the quantum mechanical anharmonic oscillator converges to the exact answer if the order dependent trial frequency \(\Omega\) is chosen to scale with the order as \(\Omega= CN^7\); \(1/3< \gamma< 1/2\), \(C>0\) as \(N\to \infty\). It converges also for \(\gamma= 1/3\), if \(C\geq \alpha_c g^{1/3}\), \(\alpha_c \simeq 0.570875\), where \(g\) is the coupling constant in front of the operator \(q^4/ 4\). The extreme case with \(\gamma= 1/3\), \(C= \alpha_c g^{1/3}\) corresponds to the choice discussed earlier in the literature.