Analytic continuation Definition and 25 Threads

If I look at the photon propagator <A_mu (x) A^nu(0) > in momentum space, as I understand it I am to compute this by summing up all the self-energy diagrams of the photon, which look like: photon -> stuff -> photon In particular, since the photon shares the same quantum numbers as the Z, you...

Hello! I am currently reading Itzykson Zuber QFT book and on Chapter 7 where for the first time loops are considered. Particular method of dealing with divergences namely Pauli-Villars regularization is considered in section 7-1-1 considering vacuum polarization diagram. I do understand physics...

I am trying to understand the branching geometry of the Dilogarithm function as described in Branching geometry of Dilogarithm. In Theorem 8.6, the following (dilogarithm) definition is given by letting ##n=2##: $$ \text{Li}_2(z)=\text{Li}_2^{(k_0,k_1)}(z)=\text{Li}_2^{(0)}(z)+\sum_{m=0}^1...

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The correct analytical continuation of the dilog function is of the form $$\text{lim}_{\epsilon \rightarrow 0^+} \text{Li}_2(x \pm i\epsilon) = -\left(\text{Li}_2(x) \mp i\pi \ln x \right)$$ I read this in a review at some point which I can no longer find at the moment so just wondered if this...

The question here is not asking for links to help understand analytic continuation or the Riemann hypothesis, but rather help in understand the bits of hand-waving in the following video’s explanations : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0NjbwqlYw (apparently narrated by the same person who does...

When one uses a contour integral to evaluate an integral on the real line, for example \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{dz}{(1+x)^{3}} is it correct to say that one analytically continues the integrand onto the complex plane and integrate it over a closed contour ##C## (over a semi-circle of radius...

For x\in\mathbb{R} we can set \textrm{Ai}(x) = \frac{1}{2\pi} \int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{i\big(\frac{t^3}{3} + tx\big)}dt If we substitute in place of x a complex parameter z with \textrm{Im}(z)>0, the integral will converge on [0,\infty[, but diverge on ]-\infty,0]. With...

Analytic continuation can be used in mathematics to assign a finite value to an infinite series that diverges to infinity. Is it correct and legitimate to equate this value to a diverging infinite series that occurs in a physical theory of nature? Will this process give a correct answer that can...

I know that at early stage (around 1999), GW implementation uses Matusbara frequency to help calculating self energy, and then apply analytic continuation to change it to real frequency for subsequent calculation. I don't know whether this scheme has been superceded by other implementations for...

Hello MHB members In this set of lectures we are going to explore the nice idea of analytic continuation and regularization of divergent series and integrals. Don't get panic ,the idea is so simple that you are actually using it without knowing. I'll try to make the tutorials as simple as...

Homework Statement Choose a branch that is analytic in the circle |z-2|<1. Then analytically continue this branch along the curve indicated in Fig 5.18. Do the new functional values agree with the old? a, 3z^{\frac{2}{3}} b, (e^z)^\frac{1}{3} Fig 5.18 is basically an ellipse like loop...

Hello, I am trying to understand the idea of using analytic continuation to find bound states in a scattering problem. What do the poles of the reflection coefficent have to do with bound states? In a problem that my quantum professor did in class (from a previous final), we looked at the 1D...

Hi, Suppose I have an analytic function f(z)=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_n z^n the series of which I know converges in at least |z|<R_1, and I have another function g(z) which is analytically continuous with f(z) in |z|<R_2 with R_2>R_1 and the nearest singular point of g(z) is on the circle...

I don't know anything of complex analysis or analytic number theory or analytic continuation. But i read about zeta function and riemann hypothesis over wikipedia, clay institute's website and few other sources. I started with original zeta function...

greetings . we have the integral : I(s)=\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{s(E_{s}(x^{s})-1)-x}{x(e^{x}-1)}dx which is equivalent to =I(s)=\frac{1}{4}\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\theta(ix)\left(sE_{s/2} ((\pi x)^{s/2})-s-2x^{1/2}\right)}{x}dx E_{\alpha}(z) being the mittag-leffler function and...

I was reading through the first chapter of Edwards' book on the zeta function, and I'm a little confused about Riemann's original continuation of zeta to all of the complex plane... The zeta function is supposed to be defined for all s in the set of complex numbers by \zeta \left( s \right) =...

The following is the problem from Fetter and Walecka (problem 3.7) If f(z) is defined to be the integration of rho(x) * (z-x)^(-1) from -infinity to +infinity. rho is in the following form rho(x)=gamma * ( gamma^2+x^2 )^(-1). Evaluate f(z) explicitly for Im(z)>0 and find its analytic...

i had a discussion with a physicist i proposed that in order to avoid the IR divergence \int_{0}^{\infty}dx(x-a)^{-3}x^{2} we could propose as regularized value the value of F(-a) , where F is the integral \int_{0}^{\infty}dx(x+b)^{-3}x^{2} so if we could regularize this simply...

they talk about the existence of analytic continuation, but how do you find (the power series/product), calculate, compute the analytic continuation? how do you actually do analytic continuation on a function?

What is analytic continuation? Seems to be used often in QFT.

I am writing my senior thesis (I am an undergrad math major at UCSB) on Dirichlet Series, which are, in the classical sense, series of the form \xi (s)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{a_n}{n^s} where a_n,s\in\mathbb{C} and a_n is multiplicative, hence \forall n,m\in\mathbb{N}, \...

Hello all, Can the method of analytic continuation [1] be applied to the calculation of the metric over a 4-d manifold? In other words, suppose that we are given the value of the metric g_ab as well as its power series at a single point p in a 4-dimensional manifold. Assume further that...

Given \zeta (s) = \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} k^{-s} which converges in the half-plane \Re (s) >1, the usual analytic continuation to the half-plane \Re (s) >0 is found by adding the alternating series \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} (-1)^kk^{-s} to \zeta (s) and simplifing to get \zeta (s) =...

I don't understand the concept of analytic continuation, at any level (I have some small amount of experience with introductory undergraduate-level complex analysis from a long time ago, mostly forgotten): 1) Firstly, why would you want to apply analytic continuation on some complex function...