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== Testing MathJax ==


 
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== Duality in perturbation theory ==
\int_a^b f'(s) ds = f(b) - f(a).
 
$$
Duality in perturbation theory has been introduced in [[Fra1998]]. It can be formulated by saying that a  solution series with a large parameter is dual to a solution series with a small parameter as it can be obtained by interchanging the choice of the perturbation term in the given equation.
It works!
 
A typical perturbation problem can be formulated with the equation
 
<math>
    \partial_t u = L(u) + \lambda V(u)
</math>
 
being <math>\lambda</math> an arbitrary ordering parameter. A solution series with a small parameter <math>\lambda\rightarrow 0</math> can be computed taking
 
<math>
    u = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \lambda^n u_n
</math>
 
giving the following equations to be solved
 
<math>
    \partial_t u_0 = L(u_0)
</math>
 
<math>
    \partial_t u_1 = L'(u_0)u_1 + V(u_0)
</math>
 
<math>
    \vdots
</math>
 
where a derivative with respect to the ordering parameter is indicated by a prime. The choice of the ordering parameter is just a conventional matter and one can choice to consider <math>L(u)</math> as a perturbation instead with respect to the same parameter. Indeed one formally could write the set of equations
 
<math>
    \partial_t v_0 = V(v_0)
</math>
 
<math>
    \partial_t v_1 = V'(v_0)v_1 + L(v_0)
</math>
 
<math>
    \vdots
</math>
 
where <math>L(u)</math> and <math>V(u)</math> are interchanged with the new solution <math>v</math>. In order to undertsand the expansion parameter we rescale the time variable as <math>\tau = \lambda t</math> into the equation to be solved obtaining
 
<math>
    \lambda\partial_{\tau} u = L(u) + \lambda V(u)
</math>
 
and we introduce the small parameter <math>\epsilon=\frac{1}{\lambda}</math>. One sees that applying again the small perturbation theory to the parameter <math>\epsilon\rightarrow 0</math> we get the required set of equations but now the time is scaled as <math>t/\epsilon</math>, that is, at the leading order the development parameter of the series will enter into the scale of the time evolution producing a proper slowing down ruled by the equation
 
<math>
    \epsilon\partial_t v_0 = V(v_0)
</math>
 
that is an equation for adiabatic evolution that in the proper limit <math>\epsilon\rightarrow 0</math> will give the static solution <math>V(v_0)=0</math>. So, the dual series
 
<math>
    v = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{\lambda}v_n
</math>
 
is obtained by simply interchanging the terms for doing perturbation theory. This is a strong coupling expansion holding in the limit <math>\lambda\rightarrow\infty</math> dual to the small perturbation theory <math>\lambda\rightarrow 0</math> we started with and having an adiabatic equation at the leading order.

Latest revision as of 08:37, 4 February 2011

Welcome to the sandbox! Please feel free to edit this page as you please by clicking on the "edit" tab at the top of this page. Terry 14:58, 30 July 2006 (EDT)

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Testing MathJax

$$ \int_a^b f'(s) ds = f(b) - f(a). $$ It works!