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We explain the physical role of non-perturbative saddle points of path integrals in theories without instantons, using the example of the asymptotically free two-dimensional principal chiral model (PCM). Standard topological arguments based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-22 Aleksey Cherman , Daniele Dorigoni , Gerald V. Dunne , Mithat Unsal

We revisit the path-integral approach to the wave function of the Universe by utilizing Lefschetz thimble analyses and resurgence theory. The traditional Euclidean path-integral of gravity has the notorious ambiguity of the direction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-17 Masazumi Honda , Hiroki Matsui , Kazumasa Okabayashi , Takahiro Terada

In this work, we first solve complex Morse flow equations for the simplest case of a bosonic harmonic oscillator to discuss localization in the context of Picard-Lefschetz theory. We briefly touch on the exact non-BPS solutions of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-12 Alireza Behtash

A new approach to nonperturbative calculations in quantum electrodynamics is proposed. The approach is based on a regular iteration scheme for solution of Schwinger-Dyson equations for generating functional of Green functions. The approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. E. Rochev

We present a broad conceptual introduction to some new ideas in non-perturbative QFT. The large-$N$ orbifold-orientifold equivalence connects a natural large-$N$ limit of QCD to QCD with adjoint fermions. QCD(adj) with periodic boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Gerald V. Dunne , Mithat Unsal

This is an introductory level review of recent applications of resurgent trans-series and Picard-Lefschetz theory to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. Resurgence connects local perturbative data with global topological structure.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-20 Gerald V. Dunne , Mithat Unsal

We investigate the trans-series structure of a quantum mechanical system originating from a Lie-algebraic K\"ahler sigma model with multiple right-handed chiral fermions, extending previous results for the standard onecomplex projective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Chao-Hsiang Sheu

The Standard Models contain chiral fermions coupled to gauge theories. It has been a long-standing problem to give such gauged chiral fermion theories a quantum non-perturbative definition. By classification of quantum anomalies and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-18 Juven Wang , Xiao-Gang Wen

We review the euclidean path-integral formalism in connection with the one-dimensional non-relativistic particle. The configurations which allow to construct a semiclassical approximation classify themselves into either topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Casahorran

We find a non-perturbative saddle-point solution for the non-linear sigma model proposed by Finkelstein for interacting and disordered electronic systems. Spin rotation symmetry, present in the original saddle point solution, is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Claudio Chamon , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

Non-equilibrium bosonization technique facilitates the solution of a number of important many-body problems out of equilibrium, including the Fermi-edge singularity, the tunneling spectroscopy and full counting statistics of interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 D. B. Gutman , Yuval Gefen , A. D. Mirlin

We present two Fermi-Bose models with an approximate supersymmetry and which can be solved with great accuracy using the renormalization group method. The bosonic parts of these models consist in Dyson's hierarchical model with one and two…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Yannick Meurice

In recent work, we introduced Picard-Lefschetz theory as a tool for defining the Lorentzian path integral for quantum gravity in a systematic semiclassical expansion. This formulation avoids several pitfalls occurring in the Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Job Feldbrugge , Jean-Luc Lehners , Neil Turok

We propose a framework to study the properties of the Lefschetz thimbles decomposition for lattice fermion models approaching the thermodynamic limit. The proposed set of algorithms includes the Schur complement solver and the exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-29 Maksim Ulybyshev , Christopher Winterowd , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

Perturbation series in quantum field theory are generally divergent asymptotic series which are also typically not Borel resummable in the sense that the resummed series is ambiguous. The ambiguity is associated with singularities in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Philip Argyres , Mithat Unsal

We study a certain class of supersymmetric (SUSY) observables in 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SUSY Chern-Simons (CS) matter theories and investigate how their exact results are related to the perturbative series with respect to coupling constants…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-27 Toshiaki Fujimori , Masazumi Honda , Syo Kamata , Tatsuhiro Misumi , Norisuke Sakai

Picard--Lefschetz theory is applied to path integrals of quantum mechanics, in order to compute real-time dynamics directly. After discussing basic properties of real-time path integrals on Lefschetz thimbles, we demonstrate its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Yuya Tanizaki , Takayuki Koike

We investigate Lefschetz thimble structure of the complexified path-integration in the one-dimensional lattice massive Thirring model with finite chemical potential. The lattice model is formulated with staggered fermions and a compact…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-01-20 H. Fujii , S. Kamata , Y. Kikukawa

In the present paper, we first give a detailed study on the pQCD corrections to the leading-twist part of BSR. Previous pQCD corrections to the leading-twist part derived under conventional scale-setting approach up to ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Qing Yu , Xing-Gang Wu , Hua Zhou , Xu-Dong Huang

We propose a quasi-Newton-type method for nonconvex optimization with Lipschitz continuous gradients and Hessians. The algorithm finds an $\varepsilon$-stationary point within $\tilde{\mathrm{O}}(d^{1/4} \varepsilon^{-13/8})$ gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Naoki Marumo