Convergence from divergence

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA9E30zbMATH Open1387.81270arXiv1705.09687OpenAlexW3105086238MaRDI QIDQ4606154FDOQ4606154

Authors: O. Costin, Gerald V. Dunne 

Publication date: 1 March 2018

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how to convert divergent series, which typically occur in many applications in physics, into rapidly convergent inverse factorial series. This can be interpreted physically as a novel resummation of perturbative series. Being convergent, these new series allow rigorous extrapolation from an asymptotic region with a large parameter, to the opposite region where the parameter is small. We illustrate the method with various physical examples, and discuss how these convergent series relate to standard methods such as Borel summation, and also how they incorporate the physical Stokes phenomenon. We comment on the relation of these results to Dyson's physical argument for the divergence of perturbation theory. This approach also leads naturally to a wide class of relations between bosonic and fermionic partition functions, and Klein-Gordon and Dirac determinants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09687

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zbMATH Keywords

Borel summationPainlevénon-perturbative physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions and generalizations (11J70) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Abel, Borel and power series methods (40G10)

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