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Generalization of Euler's Summation Formula to Path Integrals

Statistical Mechanics 2011-08-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Computational Physics

Abstract

A recently developed analytical method for systematic improvement of the convergence of path integrals is used to derive a generalization of Euler's summation formula for path integrals. The first pp terms in this formula improve convergence of path integrals to the continuum limit from 1/N to 1/Np1/N^p, where NN is the coarseness of the discretization. Monte Carlo simulations performed on several different models show that the analytically derived speedup holds.

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508710,
  title  = {Generalization of Euler's Summation Formula to Path Integrals},
  author = {Aleksandar Bogojevic and Antun Balaz and Aleksandar Belic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508710},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

12 pages, 1 figure, uses elsart.cls, ref. [15] resolved