TY - JOUR
T1 - Fast summation of divergent series and resurgent transseries from Meijer-G approximants
AU - Mera, Hector
AU - Pedersen, Thomas Garm
AU - Nikolic, Branislav K.
PY - 2018/5
Y1 - 2018/5
N2 - We develop a resummation approach based on Meijer-G functions and apply it to approximate the Borel sum of divergent series and the Borel-Écalle sum of resurgent transseries in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory (QFT). The proposed method is shown to vastly outperform the conventional Borel-Padé and Borel-Padé-Écalle summation methods. The resulting Meijer-G approximants are easily parametrized by means of a hypergeometric ansatz and can be thought of as a generalization to arbitrary order of the Borel-hypergeometric method [Mera et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143001 (2015)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.115.143001]. Here we demonstrate the accuracy of this technique in various examples from quantum mechanics and QFT, traditionally employed as benchmark models for resummation, such as zero-dimensional φ4 theory; the quartic anharmonic oscillator; the calculation of critical exponents for the N-vector model; φ4 with degenerate minima; self-interacting QFT in zero dimensions; and the summation of one- and two-instanton contributions in the quantum-mechanical double-well problem.
AB - We develop a resummation approach based on Meijer-G functions and apply it to approximate the Borel sum of divergent series and the Borel-Écalle sum of resurgent transseries in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory (QFT). The proposed method is shown to vastly outperform the conventional Borel-Padé and Borel-Padé-Écalle summation methods. The resulting Meijer-G approximants are easily parametrized by means of a hypergeometric ansatz and can be thought of as a generalization to arbitrary order of the Borel-hypergeometric method [Mera et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143001 (2015)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.115.143001]. Here we demonstrate the accuracy of this technique in various examples from quantum mechanics and QFT, traditionally employed as benchmark models for resummation, such as zero-dimensional φ4 theory; the quartic anharmonic oscillator; the calculation of critical exponents for the N-vector model; φ4 with degenerate minima; self-interacting QFT in zero dimensions; and the summation of one- and two-instanton contributions in the quantum-mechanical double-well problem.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.105027
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.105027
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 97
JO - Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
JF - Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
IS - 10
M1 - 105027
ER -