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Scharnhorst effect for a general two-parameter lagrangian density

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We discuss how the propagation of electromagnetic fields described by a general two-parameter lagrangian, which contains the Euler-Heisenberg effective lagrangian and the Born-Infeld lagrangian as particular cases, is affected by a pair of parallel plates that impose boundary conditions in the quantized field. We consider three differents setups, namely: (i) two perfectly conducting plates; (ii) two infinitely permeable plates and (iii) a pair of plates in which one of them is a perfect conductor and the other has an infinite magnetic permeability.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0410140,
  title  = {Scharnhorst effect for a general two-parameter lagrangian density},
  author = {F. A. Barone and C. Farina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0410140},
  year   = {2009}
}

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To be submitted for publication, revtex4 package, corrected typos, references rearranged