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

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Argyres, Philip C ^a   Ünsal, Mithat ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Field theories in lower dimensions; Nonperturbative effects; Renormalization regularization and renormalons; Solitons monopoles and instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865765924     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)063     Document Type: Article

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