From the mass gap in O(N) to the non-Borel-summability in O(3) and O(4) sigma-models

Dmytro Volin

Published 2009-04-17, updated 2011-04-27Version 2

We give an analytical derivation of the mass gap of the O(N) sigma models and investigate a large-order behavior of the weak coupling asymptotic expansion for the energy. For sufficiently large N the series is sign-oscillating, which is expected from the large N solution of the sigma model. However, for N=3 and N=4 the series are sign positive.