From multi-instantons to exact results
[Analyse des instantons et résultats exacts]
Zinn-Justin, Jean
Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Tome 53 (2003), p. 1259-1285 / Harvested from Numdam
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Dans ces notes nous rappelons des conjectures sur le développement semi-classique exact du spectre des hamiltoniens quantiques avec potentiels à minima dégénérés. Ces conjectures ont été initialement motivées par une évaluation semi-classique d'intégrales de chemin. Elles prennent la forme d'une formule de quantification de Bohr-Sommerfeld modifiée. Nous expliquons ici leurs relations avec un développement de l'équation de Schrodinger. Nous montrons comment ces conjectures apparaîssent naturellement dans un calcul des contributions de type instanton à l'intégrale de chemin.

In these notes, conjectures about the exact semi-classical expansion of eigenvalues of hamiltonians corresponding to potentials with degenerate minima, are recalled. They were initially motivated by semi-classical calculations of quantum partition functions using a path integral representation and have later been proven to a large extent, using the theory of resurgent functions. They take the form of generalized Bohr--Sommerfeld quantization formulae. We explain here their relation with the corresponding WKB expansion of the Schrödinger equation. We show how these conjectures naturally emerge from an evaluation of multi-instanton contributions in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.

Publié le : 2003-01-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5802/aif.1979
Classification:  34E20,  34M37,  41A60,  81Q20
Mots clés: perturbations singulières, théorie du point tournant, méthodes WKB, phénomène de résurgence 
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Zinn-Justin, Jean. From multi-instantons to exact results. Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Tome 53 (2003) pp. 1259-1285. doi : 10.5802/aif.1979. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AIF_2003__53_4_1259_0/

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