The Heisenberg-Euler Effective Action: 75 years on
High Energy Physics - Theory
2013-06-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
On this 75th anniversary of the publication of the Heisenberg-Euler paper on the full non-perturbative one-loop effective action for quantum electrodynamics I review their paper and discuss some of the impact it has had on quantum field theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.1557,
title = {The Heisenberg-Euler Effective Action: 75 years on},
author = {Gerald V. Dunne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.1557},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
10 pages; review talk at QFEXT11