The Heisenberg-Euler Effective Action: 75 years on
arXiv:1202.1557 · doi:10.1142/S0217751X12600044
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.
10 pages; review talk at QFEXT11
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