English

On exact-WKB analysis, resurgent structure, and quantization conditions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-01-01 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

There are two well-known approaches to studying nonperturbative aspects of quantum mechanical systems: Saddle point analysis of the partition functions in Euclidean path integral formulation and the exact-WKB analysis based on the wave functions in the Schr\"{o}dinger equation. In this work, based on the quantization conditions obtained from the exact-WKB method, we determine the relations between the two formalism and in particular show how the two Stokes phenomena are connected to each other: the Stokes phenomenon leading to the ambiguous contribution of different sectors of the path integral formulation corresponds to the change of the "topology" of the Stoke curves in the exact-WKB analysis. We also clarify the equivalence of different quantization conditions including Bohr-Sommerfeld, path integral and Gutzwiller's ones. In particular, by reorganizing the exact quantization condition, we improve Gutzwiller analysis in a crucial way by bion contributions (incorporating complex periodic paths) and turn it into an exact result. Furthermore, we argue the novel meaning of quasi-moduli integral and provide a relation between the Maslov index and the intersection number of Lefschetz thimbles.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2008.00379,
  title  = {On exact-WKB analysis, resurgent structure, and quantization conditions},
  author = {Naohisa Sueishi and Syo Kamata and Tatsuhiro Misumi and Mithat Ünsal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.00379},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

51 pages, 12 figures, typo corrected, added comments into Sec.IV

R2 v1 2026-06-23T17:34:46.041Z