Heisenberg-Euler Effective Lagrangians : Basics and Extensions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-11-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
I present a pedagogical review of Heisenberg-Euler effective Lagrangians, beginning with the original work of Heisenberg and Euler, and Weisskopf, for the one loop effective action of quantum electrodynamics in a constant electromagnetic background field, and then summarizing some of the important applications and generalizations to inhomogeneous background fields, nonabelian backgrounds, and higher loop effective Lagrangians.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0406216,
title = {Heisenberg-Euler Effective Lagrangians : Basics and Extensions},
author = {Gerald V. Dunne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0406216},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
82 pages; to appear in Ian Kogan Memorial Collection, ``From Fields to Strings: Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics''