From Useful Algorithms for Slowly Convergent Series to Physical Predictions Based on Divergent Perturbative Expansions
By E. Caliceti, M. Meyer-Hermann, Paolo Ribeca, A. Surzhykov, U. Jentschura. 2007
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This review is focused on the borderline region of theoretical physics and mathematics. First, we describe numerical methods for the acceleration of the convergence of series. These provide a useful toolbox for theoretical physics which has hitherto not received the attention it actually deserves. The unifying concept for convergence acceleration methods is that in many cases, one can reach much faster convergence than by adding a particular series term by term. In some cases, it is even possible to use a divergent input series, together with a suitable sequence transformation, for the construction of numerical methods that can be applied to the calculation of special functions. This review both aims to provide some practical guidance as well as a groundwork for the study of specialized literature. As a second topic, we review some recent developments in the field of Borel resummation, which is generally recognized as one of the most versatile methods for the summation of factorially divergent (perturbation) series. Here, the focus is on algorithms which make optimal use of all information contained in a finite set of perturbative coefficients. The unifying concept for the various aspects of the Borel method investigated here is given by the singularities of the Borel transform, which introduce ambiguities from a mathematical point of view and lead to different possible physical interpretations. The two most important cases are: (i) the residues at the singularities correspond to the decay width of a resonance, and (ii) the presence of the singularities indicates the existence of nonperturbative contributions which cannot be accounted for on the basis of a Borel resummation and require generalizations toward resurgent expansions. Both of these cases are illustrated by examples.
Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Condensed Matter Physics, Modeling and Simulation
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Citations in the corpus
- The Resurgence of Instantons in String Theory (2011, methodology): “, [33]) but since our models deal with asymptotic series which diverge factorially, the natural procedure to use in this case turns out to be the Borel resummation framework.”
- Nonperturbative effects and nonperturbative definitions in matrix models and topological strings (2008, methodology): “where [·] denotes the integer part (this is the approximant proposed in [54, 13]).”
- Lectures on non‐perturbative effects in large N gauge theories, matrix models and strings (2012, background): “In most of the physics literature (like for example [31]) the Borel transform of the series (2.”
- Minimally subtracted six loop renormalization of $O(n)$-symmetric $\phi^4$ theory and critical exponents (2017, background): “This problem of resummation is a huge subject, see for example the review [36], and many different approaches have been put forward.”