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The one-loop effective action for a massive self-interacting scalar field is investigated in $4$-dimensional ultrastatic space-time $ R \times H^3/\Gamma$, $H^3/\Gamma$ being a non-compact hyperbolic manifold with finite volume. Making use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. A. Bytsenko , Guido Cognola , Sergio Zerbini

We develop the in-out formalism for one-loop effective actions in electromagnetic fields in the space-dependent gauge. We further advance a method using the inverse scattering matrix to calculate the effective actions in pure magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-22 Sang Pyo Kim

Considerable work has been done on the one-loop effective action in combined electromagnetic and gravitational fields, particularly as a tool for determining the properties of light propagation in curved space. After a short review of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-24 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Jose Manuel Davila , Christian Schubert

We study several problems related to the construction and the use of effective Lagrangians by considering an extension of the standard model that includes a heavy scalar singlet coupled to the leptonic doublet. Starting from the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Mikhail Bilenky , Arcadi Santamaria

The short survey of computation and properties of effective Lagrange function of intensive field in two-loop approximation accounting for radiative interaction of virtual electrons is given. The renormalization of field, charge and mass is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Ritus

From the Euler-Heisenberg formula we calculate the exact real part of the one-loop effective Lagrangian of Quantum Electrodynamics in a constant electromagnetic field, and determine its strong-field limit.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Remo Ruffini , She-Sheng Xue

The one-loop effective action for a scalar field defined in the ultrastatic space-time where non standard logarithmic terms in the asymptotic heat-kernel expansion are present, is investigated by a generalisation of zeta-function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Guido Cognola , Sergio Zerbini

We show that the two-loop Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian for scalar QED in a constant Euclidean self-dual background has a simple explicit closed form expression in terms of the digamma function. This result leads to a simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerald V. Dunne , Christian Schubert

The idea we advocate in this paper is that the one-loop effective action of a free (massive) field theory coupled to external sources (via conserved currents) contains complete information about the classical dynamics of such sources. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 L. Bonora , M. Cvitan , P. Dominis Prester , S. Giaccari , B. Lima De Souza , T. Stemberga

The derivative expansion of the one-loop effective action in QED$_3$ and QED$_4$ is considered. The first term in such an expansion is the effective action for a constant electromagnetic field. An explicit expression for the next term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 V. P. Gusynin , I. A. Shovkovy

We present a remarkable connection between the asymptotic behavior of the Riemann zeros and one-loop effective action in Euclidean scalar field theory. We show that in a two-dimensional space, the asymptotic behavior of the Fourier…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. G. Dueñas , N. F. Svaiter , G. Menezes

We present the universal one-loop effective action for all operators of dimension up to six obtained by integrating out massive, non-degenerate multiplets. Our general expression may be applied to loops of heavy fermions or bosons, and has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Aleksandra Drozd , John Ellis , Jérémie Quevillon , Tevong You

The Euler-Heisenberg effective action at the one-loop for a constant electromagnetic field is derived in Krein space quantization with Ford's idea of uctuated light-cone. In this work we present a perturbative, but convergent solution of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-04 A. Refaei

We present the multiloop partition function of open bosonic string theory in the presence of a constant gauge field strength, and discuss its low-energy limit. The result is written in terms of twisted determinants and differentials on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Lorenzo Magnea , Rodolfo Russo , Stefano Sciuto

We offer a 2nd look at the recently claimed improvement of Euler-Heisenberg-Schwinger (EHS) action [PRL \textbf{122} (2019) no.21, 211602 and post-publication correction]: We demonstrate a difference to the claimed concordance with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-18 Stefan Evans , Johann Rafelski

Building upon the Covariant Derivative Expansion, we develop a method to compute effective actions that is able to capture non-perturbative effects induced by strong background fields. We demonstrate the method in scalar QED, by deriving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-10 Sebastián Franchino-Viñas , Jérémie Quevillon , Diego Saviot

We use a locally constant field approximation (LCFA) to study the one-loop Heisenberg-Euler effective action in a particular class of slowly varying inhomogeneous electric fields of Lorentzian shape with $0\leq d\leq 4$ inhomogeneous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-25 Felix Karbstein

We advocate the study of external-field quantum electrodynamics with $N$ charged particle flavors. Our main focus is on the Heisenberg-Euler effective action for this theory in the large $N$ limit which receives contributions from all loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-14 Felix Karbstein

We study the three-loop Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian in spinor quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions. In this first part we calculate the one-fermion-loop contribution, applying both standard Feynman diagrams and the worldline formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Idrish Huet , Michel Rausch de Traubenberg , Christian Schubert

We apply the worldline formalism to the Grosse-Wulkenhaar model and obtain an expression for the one-loop effective action which provides an efficient way for computing Schwinger functions in this theory. Using this expression we obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-08 Sebastián Franchino Viñas , Pablo Pisani