On global behavior of classical effective field theories

Abstract

In this paper, we continue the rigorous study of classical effective field theories (EFTs) that was recently initiated in the work of Reall and Warnick. We study a system with one light and one heavy field with cubic coupling and prove global existence [of the ultraviolet (UV) solution] under an effective norm in the high mass limit. Furthermore, we prove that the global solution linearly scatters (in Lax–Philips sense) and that this final state has an expansion in inverse powers of the mass, and can be recovered from the EFT equation alone.