Resummation of Threshold, Low- and High-Energy Expansions for Heavy-Quark Correlators

With the help of the Mellin-Barnes transform, we show how to simultaneously resum the expansion of a heavy-quark correlator around q^2=0 (low-energy), q^2= 4 m^2 (threshold, where m is the quark mass) and q^2=-\infty (high-energy) in a systematic way. We exemplify the method for the perturbative vector correlator at O(alpha_s^2) and O(alpha_s^3). We show that the coefficients, Omega(n), of the Taylor expansion of the vacuum polarization function in terms of the conformal variable \omega admit, for large n, an expansion in powers of 1/n (up to logarithms of n) that we can calculate exactly. This large-n expansion has a sign-alternating component given by the logarithms of the OPE, and a fixed-sign component given by the logarithms of the threshold expansion in the external momentum q^2.Comment: 27 pages, 8 figures. We fix typos in Eqs. (18), (27), (55) and (56). Results unchange

Rhad: A program for the evaluation of the hadronic R-ratio in the perturbative regime of QCD

This paper describes the fortran program rhad which performs a numerical evaluation of the photon-induced hadronic R-ratio, R(s), related to the cross section for electron-positron annihilation, for a given center-of-mass energy \sqrt{s}. In rhad the state-of-the-art perturbative corrections to R(s) are implemented and the running and decoupling of the strong coupling constant and the quark masses is automatically treated consistently. Several options allow for a flexible use of the program.Comment: 40 pages, LaTeX. 18 ps-files included. Typos fixed, references updated. The program and this paper are available from http://www.rhad.de

The Dimensional Recurrence and Analyticity Method for Multicomponent Master Integrals: Using Unitarity Cuts to Construct Homogeneous Solutions

We consider the application of the DRA method to the case of several master integrals in a given sector. We establish a connection between the homogeneous part of dimensional recurrence and maximal unitarity cuts of the corresponding integrals: a maximally cut master integral appears to be a solution of the homogeneous part of the dimensional recurrence relation. This observation allows us to make a necessary step of the DRA method, the construction of the general solution of the homogeneous equation, which, in this case, is a coupled system of difference equations.Comment: 17 pages, 2 figure

Re-Scaling of Energy in the Stringy Charged Black Hole Solutions using Approximate Symmetries

This paper is devoted to study the energy problem in general relativity using approximate Lie symmetry methods for differential equations. We evaluate second-order approximate symmetries of the geodesic equations for the stringy charged black hole solutions. It is concluded that energy must be re-scaled by some factor in the second-order approximation.Comment: 18 pages, accepted for publication in Canadian J. Physic

УВЛЕЧЕНИЕ ВЯЗКОПЛАСТИЧЕСКОЙ ЖИДКОСТИ ДВИЖУЩЕЙСЯ ВЕРТИКАЛЬНО ПЛАСТИНОЙ

The liquid capture by a moving surface is the most widespread process in chemical engineering along with calendaring, extrusion moulding, pouring, and pressure moulding. The theoretical analysis of the medium capture by a moving surface, which allows revealing the fundamental physical principles and mechanisms of the process over the entire withdrawal speed range realized in practice, was performed for Newtonian, non-Newtonian, and viscoplastic liquids. However, such an analysis of the withdrawal of viscoplastic liquids with a finite yield was not made because of the features of these liquids. Shear flow of viscoplastic liquid is possible only after the stress exceeds its yield. This fact causes serious mathematical difficulties in stating and solving the problem. In the proposed work, such a theory is being developed for viscoplastic liquids.Захват жидкости движущейся поверхностью является наиболее распространённым процессом в химической технологии наряду с каландрованием, экструзионным формованием, заливкой, формованием под давлением. Теоретический анализ увлечения среды движущейся поверхностью, позволяющей вскрыть основные физические принципы и механизмы процесса во всем диапазоне скоростей извлечения, реализуемом на практике, был проведен для ньютоновских, нелинейновязких, вязкопластичных жидкостей. Однако такой анализ по увлечению вязкопластичных жидкостей, обладающих конечным пределом текучести, проведен не был в силу специфических особенностей этих жидкостей. Для вязкопластичной жидкости сдвиговое течение возможно лишь после того как напряжение превысит предел текучести. Данное обстоятельство вносит серьезные математические трудности при постановке и решении задачи. В предлагаемой работе такая теория развивается для вязкопластичных жидкостей

Resummation Approach in QCD Analytic Perturbation Theory

We discuss the resummation approach in QCD Analytic Perturbation Theory (APT). We start with a simple example of asymptotic power series for a zero-dimensional analog of the scalar $g\,\phi^4$ model. Then we give a short historic preamble of APT and show that renormgroup improvement of the QCD perturbation theory dictates to use the Fractional APT (FAPT). After that we discuss the (F)APT resummation of nonpower series and provide the one-, two-, and three-loop resummation recipes. We show the results of applications of these recipes to the estimation of the Adler function $D(Q^2)$ in the $N_f=4$ region of $Q^2$ and of the Higgs-boson-decay width $\Gamma_{H\to b\bar{b}}(m_H^2)$ for $M_H=100-180$ GeV$^2$.Comment: 8 pages, 2 Figures, 3 Tables. Talk presented by the first author at the International HADRON STRUCTURE'11 Conference, Tatranska Strba (Slovakia), June 27--July 1, 2011 and also at the International Conference "NEW TRENDS IN HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS (experiment, phenomenology, theory)", Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine, September 3--10, 201

Properties of equations of the continuous Toda type

We study a modified version of an equation of the continuous Toda type in 1+1 dimensions. This equation contains a friction-like term which can be switched off by annihilating a free parameter \ep. We apply the prolongation method, the symmetry and the approximate symmetry approach. This strategy allows us to get insight into both the equations for \ep =0 and \ep \ne 0, whose properties arising in the above frameworks are mutually compared. For \ep =0, the related prolongation equations are solved by means of certain series expansions which lead to an infinite- dimensional Lie algebra. Furthermore, using a realization of the Lie algebra of the Euclidean group $E_{2}$, a connection is shown between the continuous Toda equation and a linear wave equation which resembles a special case of a three-dimensional wave equation that occurs in a generalized Gibbons-Hawking ansatz \cite{lebrun}. Nontrivial solutions to the wave equation expressed in terms of Bessel functions are determined. For \ep\,\ne\,0, we obtain a finite-dimensional Lie algebra with four elements. A matrix representation of this algebra yields solutions of the modified continuous Toda equation associated with a reduced form of a perturbative Liouville equation. This result coincides with that achieved in the context of the approximate symmetry approach. Example of exact solutions are also provided. In particular, the inverse of the exponential-integral function turns out to be defined by the reduced differential equation coming from a linear combination of the time and space translations. Finally, a Lie algebra characterizing the approximate symmetries is discussed.Comment: LaTex file, 27 page