Systematically Accelerated Convergence of Path Integrals

Abstract

We present a new analytical method that systematically improves the convergence of path integrals of a generic $N$-fold discretized theory. Using it we calculate the effective actions $S^{(p)}$ for $p\le 9$ which lead to the same continuum amplitudes as the starting action, but that converge to that continuum limit as $1/N^p$. We checked this derived speedup in convergence by performing Monte Carlo simulations on several different models.

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