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Introduction to spherical field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-19 v1 Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Spherical field theory is a new non-perturbative method for studying quantum field theories. It uses the spherical partial wave expansion to reduce a general d-dimensional Euclidean field theory into a set of coupled one-dimensional systems. The coupled one-dimensional systems are then converted to partial differential equations and solved numerically. We demonstrate the methods of spherical field theory by analyzing Euclidean phi^4 theory in two dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9811117,
  title  = {Introduction to spherical field theory},
  author = {Dean Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9811117},
  year   = {2010}
}