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Predrag Cvitanović publications
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Periodic orbit theory publications

[ Chaotic field theory | Turbulence | Periodic orbits extraction | Perturbative chaotic field theory | Wave chaos | Modulated amplitude waves | Periodic orbits from data | Kill periodic orbits | Nonhyperbolic dynamics | Deterministic diffusion | Cycle expansions | Geometry of chaos ]

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Chaotic field theory

Program whose goal is a theory of turbulent dynamics of classical, stochastic and quantum fields. Chaotic field theory is developed in two directions: 1) explorations of the feasibility of describing weak turbulence in terms of spatiotemporally recurrent patterns, and 2) new perturbation theory methods for computing corrections about nontrivial saddles of path integrals.

Read the sketch paper first, perhaps click through the trace formulas seminar next.

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Chaotic Field Theory: a Sketch,
Physica A 288 , 61 (2000) [ ps.gz , arXiv:nlin.CD/0001034 , source files , NSF critique ]

Explorations of weak turbulence described in terms of spatiotemporally recurrent patterns.

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Predrag Cvitanović, R. L. Davidchack and E. Siminos
State space geometry of a spatio-temporally chaotic Kuramoto-Sivashinsky flow
[ arXiv:0709.2944 ]
pdf Yueheng Lan and Predrag Cvitanović
Unstable recurrent patterns in Kuramoto-Sivashinsky dynamics
[ arXiv:0804.2474 ]
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Predrag Cvitanović, F. Christiansen and V. Putkaradze
Hopf's last hope: spatiotemporal chaos in terms of unstable recurrent patterns
Nonlinearity 10, 50 (1997) [ ps.gz , chao-dyn/9606016 , NSF critique ]
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Turbulence and what to do about it
(Bristol, Gottingen 2004 - PDF overheads)
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Spatiotemporal chaos in terms of unstable recurrent patterns
(overheads + streaming video (!), seminar abstract)
link Related links: Vachtang Putkaradze PhD thesis
The initial attempt: Vachtang's term paper toFix
Why ``Hopf's last hope'' in the title?

State space geometry of moderate Re turbulence

Getting hang of turbulence for plumbers: pipes and planes

Divakar Viswanath and Predrag Cvitanović
Stable manifolds and the transition to turbulence in pipe flow
J. Fluid Mech. (2008) , submitted [ arXiv:0801.1918 ]

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John F. Gibson, Jonathan Halcrow and Predrag Cvitanović
Visualizing the geometry of state space in plane Couette flow
J. Fluid Mech. (2008), to appear; [ arXiv:0705.3957 ]

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Movies of plane Couette flow - recommended

Modulated amplitude waves

Getting hang of spatiotemporal dynamics in nearly integrable regimes, as a warmup to turbulent dynamics...

pdf Mason A. Porter and Predrag Cvitanović
A perturbative analysis of Modulated Amplitude Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates
CHAOS 14, 739 (2004) [ arXiv:nlin.CD/0308024 ]

pdf Mason A. Porter and Predrag Cvitanović
Modulated Amplitude Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Phys. Rev. E 69, 047201 (2004) [ arXiv:nlin.CD/0307032 ]

pdf Yueheng Lan, Nicola Garnier and Predrag Cvitanović
Modulated solutions of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
Physica D 188 193, (2004) [ arXiv:nlin.PS/0208001 ]

Perturbative chaotic field theory

A triptych of technical papers whose goal is to develop improved methods of computing higher order corrections to nontrivial saddles of path integrals:

pdf Predrag Cvitanović, C.P. Dettmann, R. Mainieri and G. Vattay
Trace formulas for stochastic evolution operators: Weak noise perturbation theory
J. Stat. Phys. 93, 981 (1998) [ ps.gz , chao-dyn/9807034 ]

pdf Predrag Cvitanović, C.P. Dettmann, R. Mainieri and G. Vattay
Trace formulas for stochastic evolution operators: Smooth conjugation method
Nonlinearity 12, 939 (1999) [ ps.gz published version , ps.gz , chao-dyn/9811003 ]

pdf Predrag Cvitanović, C.P. Dettmann, G. Palla, N. Søndergaard and G. Vattay
Spectrum of stochastic evolution operators: Local matrix representation approach
Phys. Rev. E 60, 3936 (1999) [ ps.gz , chao-dyn/9904027 ]

Seminar Predrag Cvitanović
Trace formulas for stochastic evolution operators toFix
(seminar abstract, 1999).
Seminar Predrag Cvitanović
Noisy Chaos
a talk at Hans C. Fogedby 60 symposium.

Wave chaos in elastodynamics

A step toward generalizing Gutzwiller semiclassical theory to wave chaos in elastodynamical systems (professionals do not allow us to call this "acoustics")

pdf P. Cvitanović, N. Søndergaard and A. Wirzba
Wave Chaos in Elastodynamic Cavity Scattering
Europhysics Letters 72, 534 (2005)
Brief history: submitted to Phys Rev Letters Aug 28 2001; revised version submitted May 18 2004; referee offended by the "In elastodynamics, period two implies chaos" title - rejected; submitted to Europhysics Letters, May 2005, revised version with more resonances included Sep 23 2005, accepted Sep 26 2005.
[ pdf , arXiv:nlin/0108053 ]
Related links:
link N. Søndergaard, P. Cvitanović, and A. Wirzba,
Closed complex rays in scattering from elastic voids
in B. Nilsson, ed., Mathematical Modelling of Wave Phenomena 2005, AIP Conference Proceedings (2006)
N. Søndergaard, PhD thesis (Dec 2000)
seminar Andreas Wirzba, Georgia Tech seminar (Aug 2001)

Periodic orbit extraction

A variational principle for robust periodic orbit and invariant tori searches:

pdf Yueheng Lan, Cristel Chandre, and Predrag Cvitanović
Variational method for locating invariant tori
Phys. Rev. E 74, 046206 (2006) [ arXiv:nlin.CD/0508026 ] (Aug 13, 2005)

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Turbulent fields and their recurrences
in N.~Antoniou, ed., Proceed. of 10. Intern. Workshop on Multiparticle Production: Correlations and Fluctuations in QCD (World Scientific, Singapore 2003); [ ps.gz , arXiv:nlin.CD/0308006 ]

pdf Yueheng Lan and Predrag Cvitanović
Variational method for finding periodic orbits in a general flow
Phys. Rev. E 69, 016217 (2004) [ arXiv:nlin.CD/0308008 , ps.gz ]


Periodic orbit extraction from data

An early proposal on how to fish for periodic orbits by looking for near recurrences:

pdf D. Auerbach, P. Cvitanović, J.-P. Eckmann, G. Gunaratne and I. Procaccia
Exploring chaotic motion through periodic orbits
Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2387-2389 (1987)

An attempt to demonstrate existence of unstable periodic orbits and chaos in a slices of rat brains, very noisy neurophysiology experimental data

pdf Marc W. Slutzky, Predrag Cvitanović and David J. Mogul
Deterministic chaos and noise in three in vitro hippocampal models of epilepsy
Annals of Biomedical Engineering 29, 607 (2001).
pdf Marc W. Slutzky, Predrag Cvitanović and David J. Mogul
Manipulating epileptiform bursting in the rat hippocampus using chaos control and adaptive techniques
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 50, 559 (2001).
pdf Marc W. Slutzky, Predrag Cvitanović and David J. Mogul
Identification of determinism in noisy neuronal systems
J. Neuroscience Methods 118, 153 (2002)

Kill periodic orbit theory:

Two papers demonstrating that periodic orbits must satisfy infinity many sum rules

pdf Predrag Cvitanović, Kim Hansen, Juri Rolf and Gabor Vattay
Beyond periodic orbit theory
Nonlinearity 11, 1209 (1998) [ ps.gz ]
pdf Sune F. Nielsen, Per Dahlqvist and Predrag Cvitanović
Periodic orbit sum rules for billiards: Accelerating cycle expansions
J. Phys. A 32, 6757 (1999) [ ps.gz , chao-dyn/9901001 , working notes ]

Nonhyperbolic dynamics

Non-hyperbolicity, intermittency, power-law correlations: convergence of cycle expansions, analyticity of dynamical zeta functions, approach to the border of order by renormalization methods.

Roberto Artuso, Predrag Cvitanović and Gregor Tanner
Cycle expansions for intermittent maps
Proc. Theo. Phys. Supp. 150, 1 (2003) [ published version , arXiv:nlin.CD/0305008 , ps.gz ]

pdf Carl P. Dettmann and Predrag Cvitanović
Cycle expansions for intermittent diffusion
Phys. Rev. E 56, 6687 (1997)

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Roberto Artuso, Erik Aurell and Predrag Cvitanović
Recycling of strange sets: II. applications
Nonlinearity 3, 361 (1990)

Deterministic diffusion

Periodic orbit theory of deterministic diffusion

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Transport properties of the Lorentz gas in terms of periodic orbits
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 6, 113 (1995) - (61 kB) [ ps.gz ]

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Predrag Cvitanović, Pierre Gaspard and T. Schreiber)
Investigation of the Lorentz Gas in terms of periodic orbits
CHAOS 2, 85 (1992)
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Periodic orbit theory of diffusion extending to power spectra, with Pikovsky and Feigenbaum.
Both Mitchell's draft and Arkady's draft have interesting material not in the published, abreviated version:

pdf Predrag Cvitanović and Arkady S. Pikovsky
Cycle expansion for power spectrum
Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (USA) 2038, 290 (1997)

Cycle expansions

How to implement the periodic orbit theory as a computational method

pdf Predrag Cvitanović
Continuous symmetry reduced trace formulas
(in preparation, July 2006)

ps Predrag Cvitanović
Trace formulas in classical dynamical systems
in I.V. Lerner, J.P. Keating, D.E. Khmelnitskii, eds., Supersymmetry and Trace Formulae: Chaos and Disorder, (Plenum, New York 1998)

pdf G. Simon, Predrag Cvitanović, M.T. Levinsen, I. Csabai and Á. Horváth
Periodic orbit theory applied to a chaotically oscillating gas bubble in water
Nonlinearity 15, 25 (2002)

Predrag Cvitanović, Gabor Vattay and Andreas Wirzba
Quantum fluids and classical determinants
in H. Friedrich and B. Gerhardt., eds., Classical, Semiclassical and Quantum Dynamics in Atoms - in Memory of Dieter Wintgen, Lecture Notes in Physics 485 (Springer, New York 1997) [ ps.gz , chao-dyn/9608012 ]

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Dynamical averaging in terms of periodic orbits
Physica D 83, 109 (1995) [ps.gz]

Predrag Cvitanović, B. Eckhardt, P.E. Rosenqvist, G. Russberg and P. Scherer
Pinball scattering
in G. Casati and B. Chirikov, eds., Quantum Chaos, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994) [ps.gz - sorry, no figures ]

Neal J. Balmforth, Predrag Cvitanović, Glenn R. Ierley, Edward A. Spiegel and Gabor Vattay
Advection of vector fields by chaotic flows
in Stochastic Processes in Astrophysics, Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 706, 148 (1993) [ ps.gz - 69 Kb chao-dyn/9307011 - sorry, no figures ]

Predrag Cvitanović and P.E. Rosenqvist
A new determinant for quantum chaos
in G.F. Dell'Antonio, S. Fantoni and V.R. Manfredi, eds., From Classical to Quantum Chaos, Soc. Italiana di Fisica Conf. Proceed. 41, pp. 57-64 (Ed. Compositori, Bologna 1993) [e-print not available]

pdf Predrag Cvitanović and G. Vattay
Entire Fredholm determinants for evaluation of semi-classical and thermodynamical spectra
Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 4138 (1993) [ chao-dyn/930701 ]

pdf Predrag Cvitanović, P.E. Rosenqvist, G. Vattay, and H.H. Rugh
A Fredholm determinant for semi-classical quantization
CHAOS 3, 619 (1993) [ ps , chao-dyn/9307014 ]

pdf F. Christiansen and Predrag Cvitanović
Periodic orbit quantization of the anisotropic Kepler problem
CHAOS 2, 61 (1992)

pdf Periodic orbit theory in classical and quantum mechanics, CHAOS 2, 1 (1992)

pdf Kvantekaos, KVANT 5, 1 (1994) [e-print not available]

pdf Kvantes Lykkelige Dag (with Kenneth Krabat), Naturligvis 20 (1991) [e-print not available]

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Predrag Cvitanović and Bruno Eckhardt
Periodic orbit expansions for classical smooth flows
J. Phys A 24, L237 (1991) [ ps.gz ]
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Freddy Christiansen, Predrag Cvitanović and Hans Henrik Rugh
The spectrum of the period-doubling operator in terms of cycles
J. Phys A 23, L713 (1990)
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Roberto Artuso, Erik Aurell and Predrag Cvitanović
Recycling of strange sets: I. cycle expansions
Nonlinearity 3, 325 (1990)
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Predrag Cvitanović and Bruno Eckhardt
Periodic orbit quantization of chaotic systems
Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 823 (1989)

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Invariant measurement of strange sets in terms of cycles
Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2729 (1988)

Geometry of chaos

How to partition the phase space of a chaotic dynamical system

pdf Mason A. Porter and Predrag Cvitanović
Ground Control to Niels Bohr: Exploring Outer Space with Atomic Physics
Notices Am. Math. Soc. 52, 1020 (2005) [ physics/0505085 , pdf ]
Featured in: Science News 168 MSNotices200509.html (Sep 10 2005); American Mathematical Society Notices 52 (Oct 2005)

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Periodic orbits as the skeleton of classical and quantum chaos
Physica D 51 138 (1991)

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Predrag Cvitanović, Gemunu H. Gunaratne and Itamar Procaccia
Topological and metric properties of Hénon-type attractors
Phys. Rev. A 38, 1503 (1988)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović and Kai T. Hansen
Bifurcation structures in maps of Hénon type
Nonlinearity 11, 1233 (1998)

pdf Kai T. Hansen and Predrag Cvitanović
Symbolic Dynamics and Markov Partitions for the Stadium Billiard
J. Stat. Phys. ? (20??) [ ps.gz , chao-dyn/9502005 ]

The archived version was accepted for publication by J. Stat. Phys. in 1996, but then I had a brilliant idea how to make it better, and a revised version is still waiting to be resubmitted. If you can bring it back to a publishable state - current version is Notes for Kai (sept 95) - please do it, and join us as a co-author. The paper is as good as most stuff that gets published, but neither of us has the time to finish it.

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P. Cvitanović and Bruno Eckhardt
Symmetry decomposition of chaotic dynamics
Nonlinearity 6, 277 (1993) [ chao-dyn/9303016 ]

Transitions to chaos publications

[ period doubling theory | renormalization the complex plane | circle map renormalization | phase transitions ]

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Renormalizaton theory of transitions to chaos

In 1976, M.J. Feigenbaum got me interested in his discovery of universality in one-dimensional iterative maps. Following his functional formulation of the problem, I derived the universal equation for period doubling, which has since played a key role in the theory of transitions to turbulence (see M. J. Feigenbaum, J. Stat. Phys. 19, 25 (1978) and 21, 669 (1979)). We have generalized the universal equations to period n-tuplings; since then we have constructed universal scaling functions for all winding numbers in circle maps, and established the universality of the Hausdorff dimension of the critical staircase.

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Universality in chaos (or, Feigenbaum for cyclists)
lectures given at 1982 Zakopane School of Theoretical Physics, Acta Phys. Polonica A65, 203 (1984)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović and M.H. Jensen
Universality in transitions to chaos
in Chaos and universality (Nordita reprint selection, November 1981)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović and M.H. Jensen
Universalitet i overgang til kaos
Fysisk Tidsskrift 80, 82 (1982)


Circle map renormalization

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Circle maps: irrationally winding,
in C. Itzykson, P. Moussa and M. Waldschmidt, eds., Number Theory and Physics, Les Houches 1989 Spring School, (Springer, New York 1992) - sorry, no figures

pdf Predrag Cvitanović, Gemunu H. Gunaratne and M.J. Vinson
On the mode-locking universality for critical circle maps
Nonlinearity 3, 873 (1990) [ ps.gz - 108 Kb ]
pdf Predrag Cvitanović, M.H. Jensen, L.P. Kadanoff and I. Procaccia
Renormalization, unstable manifolds and the fractal structure of mode locking
Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 343 (1985)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović
Farey organization of the fractional Hall effect
Phys. Scripta T9, 202 (1984)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović
Universal scaling laws for maps on the interval and circle maps
in R.W. Boyd, L.M. Narducci and M.G. Raymer, eds., Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems, (U. of Cambridge Press, Cambridge, 1985)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović, B. Shraiman and B. Söderberg
Scaling laws for mode lockings in circle maps
Phys. Scripta 32, 263 (1985)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović M.H. Jensen, L.P. Kadanoff and I. Procaccia
Circle maps in the complex plane
in L. Pietronero and E. Tosatti, eds., Fractals in Physics, Trieste, July 1985 (North Holland, New York, 1985)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović and T. Bohr
Chaos is good news for physics
Nature 329, 391-392 (1987)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović
Chaos for cyclists
in E. Moss, ed., Noise and Chaos in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 1989)

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Recycling chaos
in A. Ferraz, F. Oliveira and R. Osorio, eds., Nonlinear Physical Phenomena, Brasilia 1989 Winter School, (World Scientific, Singapore 1990) - sorry, no figures

ps Predrag Cvitanović
The power of chaos
in J.H. Kim and J. Stringer, eds., Applied Chaos, (John Wiley & Sons, New York 1992) - sorry, no figures


Renormalization theory in the complex plane

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Predrag Cvitanović and Jan Myrheim
Complex universality
Comm. Math. Phys. 121, 225 (1989)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović and Jan Myrheim
Universality for period n-tuplings in complex mappings
Phys. Lett. 94A, 329 (1983)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović
Renormalization description of transitions to chaos
in S. Lundquist, N.H. March and E. Tosatti, eds., Order and Chaos in Non-linear Physical Systems, pp. 73-97 (Plenum, New York 1988) - a subset of the "Complex Universality" paper

pdf Predrag Cvitanović, T. Bohr and M.H. Jensen
Fractal aggregates in the complex plane
Europhys. Lett. 6, 445 (1988)


Phase transitons on fractal sets

The discovery of phase transitions on "strange sets" was followed up by many other authors; such transitions were subsequently found in a variety of dynamical systems.

pdf Predrag Cvitanović, A. Artuso and B. Kenny
Phase transitions on strange irrational sets
Phys. Rev. A 39, 268 (1989)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović
Hausdorff dimension of irrational windings
in R. Gilmore, ed., Proceedings of the XV International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, pp. 184-198 (World Scientific, Singapore, 1987)

pdf Predrag Cvitanović
Phase transitions on strange sets,
in P. Zweifel, G. Gallavotti and M. Anile, eds., Non-linear Evolution and Chaotic Phenomena, pp. 349-361 (Plenum, New York 1988) - sorry, not scanned yet

Group theory publications

pdf overview
for my group theory publications click here
Group theory webbook

Quantum field theory publications

[ Turbulent Field Theory | Perturbative QED | Finiteness conjecture | Planar field theory | Perturbative QCD | Phenomenology ]

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Turbulent field theory

Program whose goal is a non-perturbative theory of turbulent dynamics of classical, stochastic and quantum fields. Turbulent field theory is developed in two directions:
1) explorations of the feasibility of describing weak turbulence in terms of spatiotemporally recurrent patterns, and
2) new perturbation theory methods for computing corrections about nontrivial saddles of path integrals.

Read the sketch paper first, click through the trace formulas papers next.


Perturbative QED

One big calculation, the answer

\begin{displaymath}
{1 \over 2} (g-2) = {1 \over 2} {\alpha \over \pi}
- 0.3284...
...ght)^2
+ (1.183 \pm 0.011) \left({\alpha \over \pi}\right)^3.
\end{displaymath}

and why did I do this? The electron magnetic moment is the most precise prediction of quantum field theory, and its most precise experimental test. It is also the simplest physical quantity on which to test ideas about the convergence of QED perturbation theory.

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Predrag Cvitanovic´ and Toichiro Kinoshita
Feynman-Dyson rules in parametric space
Phys. Rev. D10, 3478 (1974) [ SPIRES citations ]

A (hopefully) pedagogical overview of the Schwinger and Feynman parametric representation of Feynman integrals, should be useful for any QFT perturbative calculation. Some new results, for example the theorem derived in the appendix.

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Predrag Cvitanovic´ and Toichiro Kinoshita
New approach to the separation of ultraviolet and infrared divergences of Feynman-parametric integrals
Phys. Rev. D10, 3991 (1974) [ SPIRES citations ]

A new method for dealing with Feynman diagram infrared divergences is introduced. The main result are the very ellegant and compact formulas (3.40) and (5.14) which extract the finite part from any general mass-shell Feynman diagram, removing both ultraviolet and infrared parts of the diagram and all of its counterterms. What remains after the projection is a pointwise-convergent integrand, well suited to numerical integrations.

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Predrag Cvitanovic´ and Toichiro Kinoshita
Sixth-order radiative corrections to the electron magnetic moment
Phys. Rev. Lett. 29, 1534 (1972)

At the time perhaps the most demanding numerical computation in theoretical physics, it remained QED's most precise prediction for a number of years. A step in T. Kinoshita's heroic undertaking, but nothing you would want to read today.

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Predrag Cvitanovic´ and Toichiro Kinoshita
Sixth order magnetic moment of the electron
Phys. Rev. D10, 4007 (1974) [ SPIRES citations ]

Most of this you can safely skip, unless you happen to be evaluating (g-2) to 3-loop level.

However, the new formula (6.22) for the electron magnetic moment, Sect. VI, might be of interest: (g-2) is evaluated from a derivative of the 2-point electron self-energy, rather than a 3-point electron-photon vertex, with fewer Feynman graphs:
(1) it enabled us to calculate the electron magnetic moment by two wholy independent methods.

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Computer generation of integrands for Feynman parametric integrals
Cornell preprint CLNS-234 (June, 1973) and Proc. 3rd Coll. on Advanced Comp. Meth. in Theoretical Physics (Marseille, 1973)

One of the ur-algebraic symbol manipulation programs



Finiteness of gauge field theories

For me the conceptually most striking lesson of these long QED calculations were the amazing cancellations induced by gauge invariance. The desire to understand and exploit gauge invariance more effectively has motivated much of my subsequent research. The most interesting results of this effort were the mass-shell QCD Ward identities and the construction of the QCD gauge sets. This work also motivated the formulation of planar field theory.

Other papers in this series are those on the QCD mass-shell infrared singularities and the diagram counting, both attempts to formulate gauge-invariant models computable to high orders, in order to investigate the nature of gauge-invariance induced cancellations.

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Asymptotic estimates and gauge invariance
Nucl. Phys. B127, 176 (1977) [ SPIRES citations ]

On basis of very skimpy numerical evidence, I conjecture that the gauge invariance induced cancellations are so dramatic that the growth rate of high order perturbation theory corrections to mass-shell gauge-invariant quantities is slower than Dyson's asymptotic series n! estimate. In the case of QED vertex corrections, the smallest gauge invariant set contributing to (m+m'+k)th order consists of m photon "strands" attached to the incoming electron, m' photon "strands" attached to the outgoing electron, and k photon "strands" crossing the external photon vertex. Ignoring sets with electron loops and assuming that each gauge set gives a finite contribution leads to a guess that perturbation series for the electron magnetic moment sums up to approximately

\begin{displaymath}
{1 \over 2} (g-2) = {1 \over 2} {\alpha \over \pi}
{ 1 \ov...
...ha \over \pi}\right)^2
\right)^2
} + \mbox{\lq\lq corrections''}.
\end{displaymath}
The story behind the conjecture.



Planar field theory

The method that I have used to develop the planar field theory is somewhat different from what is in most field theory textbooks; consulting my Field Theory textbook might make this derivation more accessible.

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Planar perturbation expansion
Phys. Lett. 99B, 49 (1981) [ SPIRES citations ]

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The planar sector of field theories (with P.G. Lauwers and P.N. Scharbach),
Nucl. Phys. B203, 385 (1982)
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Though the formalism is rather different, essentially the same theory was rederived in 1994 by M.A. Douglas, D.J. Gross, R. Gopakumar, D.V. Voiculescu and others. toFix


Perturbative QCD


pdf Predrag Cvitanovic´
Yang-Mills theory of the mass-shell
Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 1528 (1976)
[ SPIRES citations ]

Mass-shell amplitudes for both QED and QCD are defined via dimensional regularization, and shown to to be gauge invariant trough a cancellation between UL and IR singularities. Prior to this article, IR and UR were regularized by different methods which, when applied to QCD, violated gauge invariance.

pdf Predrag Cvitanovic´
Infra-red structure of Yang-Mills theories
Phys. Lett. 65B, 272 (1976)
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Quantum Chromodynamics on the mass-shell
Nucl. Phys. B130, 114 (1977)
[ SPIRES citations ]

pdf Predrag Cvitanovic´, B. Lautrup and R.B. Pearson
The number and weights of Feynman diagrams
Phys. Rev. D18, 1939 (1978) [ SPIRES citations ]

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The cross-over points in lattice gauge theories with continuous gauge groups
Phys. Lett. 105B, 201 (1981)

no file Predrag Cvitanovic´, P.G. Lauwers and P.N. Scharbach
Gauge invariance structure of Quantum Chromodynamics
Nucl. Phys. B186, 165 (1981) [ SPIRES citations ]


Phenomenology etc.

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Wide-angle behavior of a double-scattering diagram
Phys. Rev. D10, 338 (1974)
no file Predrag Cvitanovic´, R.J. Gonsales and D.E. Neville
Color charge algebras in Adler's Chromodynamics
Phys. Rev. D18, 3881 (1978)
no file Predrag Cvitanovic´, P. Hoyer and K. Konishi
Partons and branching
Phys. Lett. 85B 413 (1979)
no file Predrag Cvitanovic´ and R. Horsley
Exact solutions of the Altarelli-Parisi equations
Nucl. Phys. B173, 229 (1980)
no file Predrag Cvitanovic´, P. Hoyer and K. Zalewski
Parton evolution as a branching process
Nucl. Phys. B176, 429 (1980)

Miscelaneous

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drafts in progress (of interest only to frustrated collaborators)

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Midnight rider
Bike World (August 1974)

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Predrag Cvitanović and M.J. Feigenbaum, for D. Bensimon, T.C. Halsey, M.H. Jensen, L.P. Kadanoff, A. Libchaber, I. Procaccia, B.I. Shraiman and J. Stavans
More on microcanonical paradigm
(G\"oteborg, 3 a.m. of 17 Nov. 1985), rejected from every proceedings submitted to.

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