TY - JOUR AB - Padé approximants are expected to probe the singularity structure of scattering amplitudes. We apply Padé approximants for Legendre series to [pi]N amplitudes, which are obtained from phase shifts. The imaginary parts were calculated from the phase-shift analysis of Almehed and Lovelace, the real parts from fixed-t dispersion relations directly and from the phase-shift analysis of Nielsen and Oades. For all amplitudes (exept for the isospin-odd Nielsen-Oades) the poles of the Padé approximants are outside the region of analyticity in the Mandelstam plane. The Padé approximants and the truncated Legendre series for the imaginary parts deviate from each other only up to 1% even close to the boundary of the double-spectral function (except for B (+)). DA - 1974 DO - 10.1007/BF02735788 LA - eng IS - 1 M2 - 73 PY - 1974 SN - 0369-3546 SP - 73-92 T2 - Il nuovo cimento della Società Italiana di Fisica, A: nuclei, particles and field TI - Legendre padé approximants in [pi]N scattering UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-bipr-11672 Y2 - 2024-11-22T06:48:07 ER -