Physics – Mathematical Physics
Scientific paper
2004-11-13
Physics
Mathematical Physics
15 pages, 7 figures, Proceedings of the conference: "Dynamical systems, control and applications" (DySCA-I), Mexico City, 3-5
Scientific paper
In many physical problems it is not possible to find an exact solution. However, when some parameter in the problem is small, one can obtain an approximate solution by expanding in this parameter. This is the basis of perturbative methods, which have been applied and developed practically in all areas of Physics. Unfortunately many interesting problems in Physics are of non-perturbative nature and it is not possible to gain insight on these problems only on the basis of perturbation theory: as a matter of fact it often happens that the perturbative series are not even convergent. In this paper we will describe a method which allows to obtain arbitrarily precise analytical approximations for the period of a classical oscillator. The same method is then also applied to obtain an analytical approximation to the spectrum of a quantum anharmonic potential by using it with the WKB method. In all these cases we observe exponential rates of convergence to the exact solutions. An application of the method to obtain a fastly convergent series for the Riemann zeta function is also discussed.
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