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Complex Langevin: Correctness criteria, boundary terms and spectrum

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arxiv 2304.00563 v2 pith:NSWAE5QQ submitted 2023-04-02 hep-lat hep-th

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The Complex Langevin (CL) method to simulate `complex probabilities', ideally produces expectation values for the observables that converge to a limit equal to the expectation values obtained with the original complex `probability' measure. The situation may be spoiled in two ways: failure to converge and convergence to the wrong limit. It was found long ago that `wrong convergence' is caused by boundary terms; non-convergence may arise from bad spectral properties of the various evolution operators related to the CL process. Here we propose a class of criteria which allow to rule out boundary terms and at the same time bad spectrum. Ruling out boundary terms in the equilibrium distribution arising from a CL simulation implies that the so-called convergence conditions are fulfilled. This in turn has been shown to guarantee that the expectation values of holomorphic observables are given by complex linear combinations of $\exp(-S)$ over various integration cycles. If the spectrum is pathological, however, the CL simulation in general does not reproduce the integral over the desired real cycle.

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