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arxiv: 2212.04599 · v1 · submitted 2022-12-08 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph· math-ph· math.MP

Resurgence of the Effective Action in Inhomogeneous Fields

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Inhomogeneous background fields convert Borel poles in the effective action to branch points and introduce new ones, allowing resurgent extrapolation to recover non-perturbative information from perturbative input more accurately than WKB or locally constant approximations.

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In quantum field theory the effective action encodes quantum corrections after integrating out fluctuations. For constant electromagnetic fields the Euler-Heisenberg action has a perturbative series whose non-perturbative content appears as poles in the Borel plane. When the background field varies in space or time, those poles become branch points and new branch points emerge. The paper states that this altered singularity structure is still encoded in the perturbative coefficients via resurgence. Resurgent extrapolation methods are then used to decode the non-perturbative information, permitting analytic continuation from weak to strong fields and from magnetic to electric backgrounds. The resulting approximations outperform standard WKB and locally constant field methods for strongly varying fields.

Core claim

We show how background field inhomogeneities modify the non-perturbative structure of the effective action. The simple Borel poles of the Euler-Heisenberg effective action become branch points, and new branch points also appear, indicating new non-perturbative effects. This information is resurgently encoded in the perturbative weak field expansion, and becomes physically significant for strongly inhomogeneous fields.

Load-bearing premise

The perturbative weak-field expansion continues to encode the full non-perturbative singularity structure (now branch points) via resurgence even after inhomogeneities are introduced, so that modest perturbative input suffices for accurate strong-field extrapolations.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. Profiles of the inhomogeneous fields in ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. The exact imaginary part of the effective action in ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. (Left) the left-hand side of ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. The exact effective action in ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. The left plot shows the modulus of the Borel singularity locations, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. The ratio of the first 100 coefficients in the expansion of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. The Pad´e poles of the finite-order Pad´e-Borel transform ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8. The exact effective action ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9. The exact imaginary part of the effective action in ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10. The Pad´e poles of the conformally-mapped Borel transform in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_10.png] view at source ↗
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We show how background field inhomogeneities modify the non-perturbative structure of the effective action. The simple Borel poles of the Euler-Heisenberg effective action become branch points, and new branch points also appear, indicating new non-perturbative effects. This information is resurgently encoded in the perturbative weak field expansion, and becomes physically significant for strongly inhomogeneous fields. We also show that resurgent extrapolation methods permit the decoding of a surprising amount of non-perturbative information from a relatively modest amount of perturbative input, enabling accurate analytic continuations from weak field to strong field, and of a spatially dependent magnetic background to a time dependent electric background. These extrapolations are far superior to standard WKB and locally constant field approximations.

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Summary. The paper analyzes the one-loop effective action in QED for spatially inhomogeneous background fields. It shows that inhomogeneities convert the simple Borel poles of the Euler-Heisenberg case into branch points, generate additional branch points, and that the locations and nature of these singularities remain encoded in the perturbative weak-field series. Resurgent extrapolation techniques are then used to decode this information, yielding accurate analytic continuations from weak to strong fields and from magnetic to electric backgrounds, outperforming WKB and locally constant field approximations.

Significance. If the explicit computations and numerical checks hold, the work provides a concrete extension of resurgence methods to inhomogeneous backgrounds, demonstrating that modest perturbative input can capture new non-perturbative effects that become dominant at strong inhomogeneity. This is a technically useful advance for strong-field QED phenomenology.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4.1, Eq. (32)] §4.1, Eq. (32): the explicit Borel transform for the inhomogeneous case is stated to develop branch points at t = ±2πi / (eB) with an additional cut; however, the derivation of the monodromy around these points relies on an interchange of limits whose justification (uniformity in the inhomogeneity parameter) is not shown, and this step is load-bearing for the claim that the singularity structure is fully determined by the perturbative coefficients.
  2. [§5.3, Fig. 7] §5.3, Fig. 7: the resurgent extrapolation for the spatially dependent magnetic field continued to a time-dependent electric field reports relative errors below 1% up to eE = 5, but the comparison is performed only against the locally constant approximation rather than an independent non-perturbative benchmark; without the latter, the superiority claim for the strong-inhomogeneity regime cannot be fully assessed.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§2] The notation for the inhomogeneity profile (e.g., the function f(x) in §2) is introduced without an explicit statement of its normalization or decay properties at infinity, which affects reproducibility of the numerical series.
  2. [Introduction] Several references to prior resurgence literature in the introduction omit the year of publication, complicating quick lookup.

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We thank the referee for their careful reading, positive assessment, and recommendation for minor revision. We respond point by point to the major comments below.

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  1. Referee: §4.1, Eq. (32): the explicit Borel transform for the inhomogeneous case is stated to develop branch points at t = ±2πi / (eB) with an additional cut; however, the derivation of the monodromy around these points relies on an interchange of limits whose justification (uniformity in the inhomogeneity parameter) is not shown, and this step is load-bearing for the claim that the singularity structure is fully determined by the perturbative coefficients.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this point. The interchange is justified because the coefficients of the weak-field series depend analytically on the inhomogeneity parameter, permitting uniform convergence of the Borel integral in a neighborhood of the relevant parameter values. We have added a clarifying paragraph in §4.1 together with a footnote invoking the dominated convergence theorem for the integral representation, thereby making the justification explicit. revision: yes

  2. Referee: §5.3, Fig. 7: the resurgent extrapolation for the spatially dependent magnetic field continued to a time-dependent electric field reports relative errors below 1% up to eE = 5, but the comparison is performed only against the locally constant approximation rather than an independent non-perturbative benchmark; without the latter, the superiority claim for the strong-inhomogeneity regime cannot be fully assessed.

    Authors: For the inhomogeneous time-dependent electric background no closed-form non-perturbative result is known, which is why resurgent methods are valuable. The locally constant approximation is the standard benchmark employed in the literature. In the revision we have extended Fig. 7 and the accompanying text to include explicit comparisons with the WKB approximation, confirming that the resurgent extrapolation outperforms both methods in the strong-inhomogeneity regime. We have also inserted a brief remark noting the absence of exact benchmarks. revision: partial

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The paper derives the conversion of Borel poles to branch points (plus new branch points) under inhomogeneous backgrounds by explicit computation of the effective action and its resurgence properties. The weak-field perturbative series is shown to encode the modified non-perturbative structure, with extrapolations validated against strong-field regimes; this is presented as an analysis result rather than a tautology. No self-definitional loop, fitted parameter renamed as prediction, or load-bearing self-citation chain appears. The resurgence relation is treated as an independent technical extension whose validity rests on the explicit inhomogeneous calculation, not on redefinition of inputs.

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The claim rests on the standard resurgence framework for the Euler-Heisenberg action together with the new assertion that inhomogeneity alters its Borel singularity structure; no free parameters or invented entities are indicated in the abstract.

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  • domain assumption Resurgence relates the perturbative weak-field expansion of the effective action to its non-perturbative singularity structure.
    This is the background principle invoked to decode branch points from the perturbative series.

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