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In this work, we explicitly show resurgence relations between perturbative and one instanton sectors of the resonance energy levels for cubic and quartic anharmonic potentials in one-dimensional quantum mechanics. Both systems satisfy the Dunne–Ünsal relation and hence we are able to derive one-instanton nonperturbative contributions with the fluctuation terms to the energy merely from the perturbative data. We confirm our results with previous results obtained in the literature.

We study some of the implications for the perturbative renormalization program when augmented with the Borel–Ecalle resummation. We show the emergence of a new kind of nonperturbative fixed point for the scalar ${\varphi }^4$ model, representing an ultraviolet self-completion by transseries. We argue that this completion is purely non-Wilsonian and it depends on one arbitrary constant stemming from the transseries solution of the renormalization group equation. On the other hand, if no fixed points are demanded through the adjustment of this arbitrary constant, we end up with an effective theory in which the scalar mass is quadratically-sensitive to the cutoff, even working in dimensional regularization. Complete decoupling of the scalar mass to this energy scale can be used to determine a physical prescription for the Borel–Laplace resummation of the renormalons in nonasymptotically free models. We also comment on possible orthogonal scenarios available in the literature that might play a role when no fixed points exist.

Under certain assumptions and independent of the instantons, we show that the logarithm expansion of dimensional regularization in quantum field theory needs a nonperturbative completion to have a renormalization group flow valid at all energies. Then, we show that such nonperturbative completion has the analytic properties of the renormalons, which we find with only a marginal reference to diagrammatic calculations. We demonstrate that renormalon corrections necessarily lead to analyzable functions, namely, resurgent transseries. A detailed analysis of the resurgent properties of the renormalons is provided. The self-consistency of the theory requires these nonperturbative contributions to render the running coupling well defined at any energy, thus with no Landau pole. We illustrate the point within the case of quantum electrodynamics (QED). This way, we explicitly realize the correspondence between the nonperturbative Landau pole scale and the renormalons. What is seen as a Landau pole in perturbation theory is cured by the nonperturbative, resurgent contributions.

The purpose of this paper is to study the containment problem for the corresponding ideal $I_Z$ of a special zero dimensional subscheme $Z$ in ${\mathbb{P}}^2$, what we call a fat nearly-complete intersection. We show that for every positive integer $m$, the equality $I_Z^{(m)}=I_Z^m$ holds.

Given a nontrivial homogeneous ideal $I\subseteq k[x_1,x_2,\dots ,x_d]$, a problem of great recent interest has been the comparison of the $r$th ordinary power of $I$ and the $m$th symbolic power $I^{(m)}$. This comparison has been undertaken directly via an exploration of which exponents $m$ and $r$ guarantee the subset containment $I^{(m)}\subseteq I^r$ and asymptotically via a computation of the resurgence $\rho (I)$, a number for which any $m/r>\rho (I)$ guarantees $I^{(m)}\subseteq I^r$. Recently, a third quantity, the symbolic defect, was introduced; as $I^t\subseteq I^{(t)}$, the symbolic defect is the minimal number of generators required to add to $I^t$ in order to get $I^{(t)}$. We consider these various means of comparison when $I$ is the edge ideal of certain graphs by describing an ideal $J$ for which $I^{(t)}=I^t+J$. When $I$ is the edge ideal of an odd cycle, our description of the structure of $I^{(t)}$ yields solutions to both the direct and asymptotic containment questions, as well as a partial computation of the sequence of symbolic defects.

Let $G$ be a graph and $I=I(G)$ be its edge ideal. When $G$ is the clique sum of two different length odd cycles joined at single vertex then we give an explicit description of the symbolic powers of $I$ and compute the Waldschmidt constant. When $G$ is complete graph then we describe the generators of the symbolic powers of $I$ and compute the Waldschmidt constant and the resurgence of $I$. Moreover for complete graph we prove that the Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity of the symbolic powers and ordinary powers of the edge ideal coincide.

The purpose of this note is to generalize a result of [M. Dumnicki, T. Szemberg and H. Tutaj-Gasińska, Symbolic powers of planar point configurations II, J. Pure Appl. Alg.220 (2016) 2001–2016] to higher-dimensional projective spaces and classify all configurations of $(N-2)$-planes $Z$ in ${\mathbb{P}}^N$ with the Waldschmidt constants less than two. We also determine some numerical and algebraic invariants of the defining ideals $I(Z)$ of these classes of configurations, i.e. the resurgence, the minimal free resolution and the regularity of $I(Z)$, as well as the Hilbert function of $Z$.

I trace the main steps of the first fifty-five years of my career as an applied mathematician, pausing from time to time to describe problems that arose in asymptotics and numerical analysis and had far-reaching effects on this career.

Lecture delivered at Asymptotics and Applied Analysis, Conference in Honor of Frank W. J. Olver's 75th Birthday, January 10–14, 2000, San Diego State University, San Diego, California.

Editors' Note: Frank W. J. Olver died on April 23, 2013. The following text was typed by his son, Peter J. Olver, from handwritten notes found among his papers. At times the writing is unpolished, including incomplete sentences, but the editors have decided to leave it essentially the way it was written. However, for clarity, some abbreviations have been written out in full. A couple of handwritten words could not be deciphered, and a guess for what was intended is enclosed in brackets: […]. Endnotes have been made into footnotes within the body of the article. References were mostly not included in the handwritten text, but rather listed in order at the end. Citations to references have been included at the appropriate point in the text.

The aim of this paper is to derive new representations for the Hankel and Bessel functions, exploiting the reformulation of the method of steepest descents by Berry and Howls [Hyperasymptotics for integrals with saddles, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A434 (1991) 657–675]. Using these representations, we obtain a number of properties of the large-order asymptotic expansions of the Hankel and Bessel functions due to Debye, including explicit and numerically computable error bounds, asymptotics for the late coefficients, exponentially improved asymptotic expansions, and the smooth transition of the Stokes discontinuities.

In this paper, we derive new representations for the incomplete gamma function, exploiting the reformulation of the method of steepest descents by C. J. Howls [Hyperasymptotics for integrals with finite endpoints, Proc. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A439 (1992) 373–396]. Using these representations, we obtain a number of properties of the asymptotic expansions of the incomplete gamma function with large arguments, including explicit and realistic error bounds, asymptotics for the late coefficients, exponentially improved asymptotic expansions, and the smooth transition of the Stokes discontinuities.

In this paper, the containment problem for the defining ideal of a special type of zero-dimensional subscheme of ℙ², the so-called quasi star configuration, is investigated. Some sharp bounds for the resurgence of these types of ideals are given. As an application of this result, for every real number $0<\epsilon <\frac{1}{2}$, we construct an infinite family of homogeneous radical ideals of points in 𝕂[ℙ²] such that their resurgences lie in the interval [2−ε, 2). Moreover, the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of all ordinary powers of defining ideal of quasi star configurations are determined. In particular, it is shown that all of these ordinary powers have a linear resolution.