Analytic continuation and perturbative expansions in QCD

DOI10.1007/S100520100880MaRDI QIDQ1348899zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

singularitiesbranch pointsBorel complex plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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

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