2018/07/31 by Alan J. McKane, Alan J McKane · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Asymptotic expansion #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Computation #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Feynman diagram #Geometry #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Perturbation (astronomy) #Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) #Physics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Scalar field theory #Statistical physics #Theoretical physics #cond-mat.stat-mech #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1751-8121/aaf768
published as J. Phys. A 52, 055401 (2019) · 14 pages
openalex created_date 2018/07/10 · openalex publication_date 2018/12/10 · arxiv created 2019/01/14 · arxiv updated 2019/01/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The question of the asymptotic form of the perturbation expansion in scalar field theories is reconsidered. Renewed interest in the computation of terms in the -expansion, used to calculate critical exponents, has been frustrated by the differing and incompatible results for the high-order behaviour of the perturbation expansion reported in the literature. We identify the sources of the errors made in earlier papers, correct them, and obtain a consistent set of results. We focus on theory, since this has been the most studied and is the most widely used, but we also briefly discuss analogous results for theory, with N > 4. This reexamination of the structure of perturbation expansions raises issues concerning the renormalisation of non-perturbative effects and the nature of the Feynman diagrams at large order, which we discuss.