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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.

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@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

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