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An All-Orders Derivative Expansion

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-04-15 v1

Abstract

We evaluate the exact QED2+1QED_{2+1} effective action for fermions in the presence of a family of static but spatially inhomogeneous magnetic field profiles. This exact result yields an all-orders derivative expansion of the effective action, and indicates that the derivative expansion is an asymptotic, rather than a convergent, expansion.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9611019,
  title  = {An All-Orders Derivative Expansion},
  author = {Gerald Dunne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9611019},
  year   = {2011}
}

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9pp LaTeX; Talk at Telluride Workshop on Low Dimensional Field Theory