English

Multiloop Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangians, Schwinger pair creation, and the QED N - photon amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-07-17 v1

Abstract

An update is given on our long-term effort to perform a three-loop check on the Affleck-Alvarez-Manton/Lebedev-Ritus exponentiation conjecture for the imaginary part of the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian, using 1+1 dimensional QED as a toy model. After reviewing the history and significance of the conjecture, we present trigonometric integral representations for the single electron loop contributions to the three-loop Lagrangian, and develop a symmetry-based method for the calculation of their weak-field expansion coefficients.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1807.05938,
  title  = {Multiloop Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangians, Schwinger pair creation, and the QED N - photon amplitudes},
  author = {Idrish Huet and Michel Rausch de Traubenberg and Christian Schubert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.05938},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

10 pages, 8 figures, Talk given by Christian Schubert at Loops and Legs 2018 (St. Goar, April 29 - May 4, 2018)