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Exact-WKB, complete resurgent structure, and mixed anomaly in quantum mechanics on $S^1$

Quantum Physics 2025-06-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We investigate the exact-WKB analysis for quantum mechanics in a periodic potential, with NN minima on S1S^{1}. We describe the Stokes graphs of a general potential problem as a network of Airy-type or degenerate Weber-type building blocks, and provide a dictionary between the two. The two formulations are equivalent, but with their own pros and cons. Exact-WKB produces the quantization condition consistent with the known conjectures and mixed anomaly. The quantization condition for the case of NN-minima on the circle factorizes over the Hilbert sub-spaces labeled by discrete theta angle (or Bloch momenta), and is consistent with 't Hooft anomaly for even NN and global inconsistency for odd NN. By using Delabaere-Dillinger-Pham formula, we prove that the resurgent structure is closed in these Hilbert subspaces, built on discrete theta vacua, and by a transformation, this implies that fixed topological sectors (columns of resurgence triangle) are also closed under resurgence.

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@article{arxiv.2103.06586,
  title  = {Exact-WKB, complete resurgent structure, and mixed anomaly in quantum mechanics on $S^1$},
  author = {Naohisa Sueishi and Syo Kamata and Tatsuhiro Misumi and Mithat Ünsal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.06586},
  year   = {2025}
}