Analytic continuation and perturbative expansions in QCD

DOI10.1007/S100520100880zbMATH Open1099.81560arXivhep-ph/0110344OpenAlexW1971538547MaRDI QIDQ1348899FDOQ1348899

Authors: Irinel Caprini, Jan Fischer 

Publication date: 20 May 2002

Published in: The European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Starting from the divergence pattern of perturbative quantum chromodynamics, we propose a novel, non-power series replacing the standard expansion in powers of the renormalized coupling constant $a$. The coefficients of the new expansion are calculable at each finite order from the Feynman diagrams, while the expansion functions, denoted as $W_n(a)$, are defined by analytic continuation in the Borel complex plane. The infrared ambiguity of perturbation theory is manifest in the prescription dependence of the $W_n(a)$. We prove that the functions $W_n(a)$ have branch point and essential singularities at the origin $a=0$ of the complex $a$-plane and their perturbative expansions in powers of $a$ are divergent, while the expansion of the correlators in terms of the $W_n(a)$ set is convergent under quite loose conditions

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0110344

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zbMATH Keywords

singularitiesbranch pointsBorel complex plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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