THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE GAUSSIAN EFFECTIVE POTENTIAL

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Abstract
An uncertainty is introduced for the Gaussian Effective Potential. The definition is quite straightforward for quantum mechanics but fairly subtle for quantum field theory. The uncertainty provides a good estimation of the error in the first case, but renormalization seems to spoil its usefulness in the second case. The examples considered are the anharmonic oscillator, λϕ4 in 3+1 dimensions and the Liouville theory in 1+1 dimensions.

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