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The one-loop effective action in QED at zero and finite temperature is obtained by using the worldline approach. The Feynman rules for the perturbative expansion of the action in the number of derivatives are derived. The general structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Igor A. Shovkovy

We present the one-loop effective action of a quantum scalar field with DSR1 space-time symmetry as a sum over field modes. The effective action has real and imaginary parts and manifest charge conjugation asymmetry, which provides an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 M V Cougo-Pinto , C Farina , F S S Rosa , J F M Mendes

We study the one-loop effective action for a generic two-dimensional dilaton gravity theory conformally coupled to $N$ matter fields. We obtain an explicit expression for the effective action in the weak-coupling limit under a suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 A. Mikovic , V. Radovanovic

We revisit the Schwinger effect in de Sitter, anti-de Sitter spaces and charged black holes, and explore the interplay between quantum electrodynamics and the quantum gravity effect at one-loop level. We then advance a thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Sang Pyo Kim

The Fock-Schwinger proper-time method is used to derive the effective action in the field theory with the chiral $U(3)\times U(3)$ symmetry explicitly broken by unequal masses of heavy particles. The one-loop effective action is presented…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 A. A. Osipov

In this paper we will present very recent results obtained in the ambit of quantum electrodynamics in curved spacetime. We utilize a newly developed non-perturbative heat kernel asymptotic expansion on homogeneous Abelian bundles over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Guglielmo Fucci , Ivan G. Avramidi

We identify an unusual new gauge-gravity relation: the one-loop effective action for a massive spinor in 2n dimensional AdS space is expressed in terms of precisely the same function [a certain multiple gamma function] as the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-23 Gokce Basar , Gerald V. Dunne

The full one-loop (scalar) effective action is computed for both hyperbolic and elliptic spacetimes.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Enrique Alvarez , Jesus Anero

We derive an effective equation and action for comoving curvature perturbations and gravitational waves (GWs) in terms of a time, momentum and polarization dependent effective speed, encoding the effects of the interaction among metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-21 Antonio Enea Romano

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 revisit the Hawking radiation by comparing the effective actions in the in-out formalism, and advance an interpretation of the vacuum polarization and the Hawking radiation. The equivalence exists between the spinor QED effective action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-19 Sang Pyo Kim

In this paper, the \lambda\phi^4 scalar feld effective action, in the one-loop approximation, is calculated by using the Krein space quantization. We show that the effective action is naturally fnite and the singularity does not appear in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-14 A. Refaei , M V. Takook

We investigate the process of the Schwinger effect by axial coupling in the natural single-field inflation model in two parts. First we consider the Schwinger effect when the conformal invariance of Maxwell action should be broken by axial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-04 Mehran Kamarpour

A method is presented for the computation of the one-loop effective action at finite temperature and density. The method is based on an expansion in the number of spatial covariant derivatives. It applies to general background field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-15 C. García-Recio , L. L. Salcedo

The finite-temperature one-loop effective potential for a scalar field in the static de Sitter space-time is obtained. Within this framework, by using zeta-function regularization, one can get, in the conformally invariant case, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 D. V. Fursaev , G. Miele

The non-local one-loop contribution to the gravitational effective action around de Sitter space is computed using the background field method with pure trace external gravitational fields and it is shown to vanish. The calculation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Antoniadis , J. Iliopoulos , T. N. Tomaras

We investigate the one-loop corrections at zero, as well as finite temperature, of a scalar field taking place in a braneworld motived warped background. After to reach a well defined problem, we calculate the effective action with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 J. M. Hoff da Silva , E. L. Mendonça , E. Scatena

The particle production in a de Sitter space provides an interesting model to understand the curvature effect on Schwinger pair production by a constant electric field or Schwinger mechanism on the de Sitter radiation. For that purpose, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Sang Pyo Kim

We extend Schwinger's proper-time formalism to provide a method for computing the one-loop effective action for both spinor and scalar quantum electrodynamics in $d=2n>4$ dimensions. The closed form expression for the six-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Terry Hatzis , Sergei M. Kuzenko

We consider a scalar field theory with quartic self interaction, Yukawa coupled to fermions in the inflationary de Sitter spacetime background. The scalar has a classical background plus quantum fluctuations, whereas the fermions are taken…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-31 Sourav Bhattacharya , Kinsuk Roy