At Which Order Should we Truncate Perturbative Series?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-08-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Perturbative coefficients grow factorially with the order and one needs a prescription to truncate the series in order to obtain a finite result. A common prescription consists in dropping the smallest contribution at a given coupling and all the higher orders terms. We discuss the error associated with this procedure. We advocate a more systematic approach which consists in controlling the large field configurations in the functional integral. We summarize our best understanding of these issues for lattice QCD in the quenched approximation and their connection with convergence problems found in the continuum.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0608097,
title = {At Which Order Should we Truncate Perturbative Series?},
author = {Y. Meurice},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0608097},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figs., talk given at Continuous Advances in QCD 2006