Resurgence of the Effective Action in Inhomogeneous Fields
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| author | Dunne, Gerald V. Harris, Zachary |
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| contents | We show how background field inhomogeneities modify the non-perturbative structure of the effective action. The simple Borel poles of the Euler-Heisenberg effective action become branch points, and new branch points also appear, indicating new non-perturbative effects. This information is resurgently encoded in the perturbative weak field expansion, and becomes physically significant for strongly inhomogeneous fields. We also show that resurgent extrapolation methods permit the decoding of a surprising amount of non-perturbative information from a relatively modest amount of perturbative input, enabling accurate analytic continuations from weak field to strong field, and of a spatially dependent magnetic background to a time dependent electric background. These extrapolations are far superior to standard WKB and locally constant field approximations. |
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| spellingShingle | Resurgence of the Effective Action in Inhomogeneous Fields Dunne, Gerald V. Harris, Zachary High Energy Physics - Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Mathematical Physics We show how background field inhomogeneities modify the non-perturbative structure of the effective action. The simple Borel poles of the Euler-Heisenberg effective action become branch points, and new branch points also appear, indicating new non-perturbative effects. This information is resurgently encoded in the perturbative weak field expansion, and becomes physically significant for strongly inhomogeneous fields. We also show that resurgent extrapolation methods permit the decoding of a surprising amount of non-perturbative information from a relatively modest amount of perturbative input, enabling accurate analytic continuations from weak field to strong field, and of a spatially dependent magnetic background to a time dependent electric background. These extrapolations are far superior to standard WKB and locally constant field approximations. |
| title | Resurgence of the Effective Action in Inhomogeneous Fields |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Mathematical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04599 |