The semi-classical expansion and resurgence in gauge theories: new perturbative, instanton, bion, and renormalon effects

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2012)063zbMath1397.81129arXiv1206.1890OpenAlexW2078844075MaRDI QIDQ1795859

Publication date: 16 October 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1890

zbMATH Keywords

field theories in lower dimensions nonperturbative effects solitons monopoles and instantons renormalization regularization and renormalons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

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