Large-order behaviour of perturbation theory:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam North-Holland 1990
Schriftenreihe:Current physics--sources and comments 7
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
This volume is concerned with the determination of the behaviour of perturbation theory at large orders in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, and its application to the problem of summation of perturbation series. Perturbation series in quantum field theory and in many quantum mechanics models are only asymptotic and thus diverge for all values of the expansion parameter. Their behaviour at large orders provides information about whether they define the theory uniquely (the problem of Borel summability). It suggests methods to extract numerical information from the series when the expansion parameter is not small. The articles reprinted here deal with the explicit evaluation of large-order behaviour in many quantum mechanics and field theory models. The large-order behaviour is related to barrier penetration effects for unphysical values of the expansion parameter, which can be calculated by WKB or instanton methods. The calculation of critical exponents of & fgr;4 field theory is presented as a practical application
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 580 pages)
ISBN:0444885943
0444885978
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9780444885944
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9781299541122

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