Quantum geometry of resurgent perturbative/nonperturbative relations

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)087zbMATH Open1380.81385arXiv1701.06572OpenAlexW2581353277WikidataQ57426264 ScholiaQ57426264MaRDI QIDQ682977FDOQ682977

Authors: Gerald V. Dunne, Gökçe Başar, Mithat Ünsal 

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a wide variety of quantum potentials, including the textbook `instanton' examples of the periodic cosine and symmetric double-well potentials, the perturbative data coming from fluctuations about the vacuum saddle encodes all non-perturbative data in all higher non-perturbative sectors. Here we unify these examples in geometric terms, arguing that the all-orders quantum action determines the all-orders quantum dual action for quantum spectral problems associated with a classical genus one elliptic curve. Furthermore, for a special class of genus one potentials this relation is particularly simple: this class includes the cubic oscillator, symmetric double-well, symmetric degenerate triple-well, and periodic cosine potential. These are related to the Chebyshev potentials, which are in turn related to certain $mathcalN=2$ supersymmetric quantum field theories, to mirror maps for hypersurfaces in projective spaces, and also to topological $c=3$ Landau-Ginzburg models and `special geometry'. These systems inherit a natural modular structure corresponding to Ramanujan's theory of elliptic functions in alternative bases, which is especially important for the quantization. Insights from supersymmetric quantum field theory suggest similar structures for more complicated potentials, corresponding to higher genus. Our approach is very elementary, using basic classical geometry combined with all-orders WKB.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06572

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zbMATH Keywords

nonperturbative effectssolitons monopoles and instantonstopological strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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