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Proper-time methods in the presence of non-constant background fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

A formalism is developed to enable the construction of the effective action and related quantities in QED for the case of time-varying background electric fields. Some examples are studied and evidence is sought for a possible transition to a phase in which chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken. YCTP-P14-94

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9410393,
  title  = {Proper-time methods in the presence of non-constant background fields},
  author = {Alan Chodos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9410393},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, YCTP-P14-94