Resurgence Methods and Applications (4/4)
Ricardo Schiappa
IST, ULisboa
Fri, Apr. 03rd 2020, 10:00-12:15
Salle Claude Itzykson, Bât. 774, Orme des Merisiers

\par In general interacting theories --quantum mechanical, field, gauge, or string theories-- perturbation theory is divergent: perturbative expansions have zero radius of convergence and seemingly cannot be summed. Nonperturbatively well-defined results can still be constructed out of perturbation theory by the uses of resurgence and transseries. \par Asymptotic series require the use of resurgence and transseries in order for their associated observables to become nonperturbatively well-defined. Resurgent transseries encode the complete large-order asymptotic behaviour of the coefficients from a perturbative expansion, generically in terms of (multi) instanton sectors and for each problem in terms of its Stokes coefficients. By means of two very explicit examples, we plan to introduce the aforementioned resurgent, large-order asymptotics of general perturbative expansions, including discussions of transseries, Stokes phenomena, generalized steepest-descent methods, Borel transforms, nonlinear resonance, and alien calculus. \\ \\ 1. Introduction \\ 2. Resurgent Analysis of a Quartic-Potential Integral \\ 3. Lefschetz Thimbles for Linear Problems \\ 4. Borel Transforms for Nonlinear Problems \\ 5. Physical Resurgence: From Lattices to Virasoro Algebras \\ 6. Resurgent Analysis of an Elliptic-Potential Integral

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