Theory of Perturbations with a Strong Interaction

V. I. Yukalov

Published 2019-01-28Version 1

This is one of the two papers where the optimized perturbation theory was first formulated. The other paper is published in Theor. Math. Phys. 28, 652--660 (1976). The main idea of the theory is to reorganize the perturbative sequence by introducing control functions, defined by optimization conditions, so that the reorganized approximation sequence be convergent. In the present paper, the theory of perturbations is suggested for statistical systems in the absence of small interaction parameters. A new form is advanced for self-consistent conditions defining the optimal parameters for trial Green functions in iterating nonlinear propagator equations. Superharmonic, semiharmonic, and pseudoharmonic approximations for a molecular crystal are considered as examples.