The Study of the Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian and Some of its Applications
arXiv:hep-ph/0308223 · doi:10.1063/1.1632189
Abstract
The Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian is not only a topic of fundamental interest, but also has a rich variety of diverse applications in astrophysics, nonlinear optics and elementary particle physics etc. We discuss the series representation of this Lagrangian and a few of its applications in this study. [In an appendix, we discuss issues related to the renormalization - and the renormalization-group invariance - of the Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian and its two-loop generalization.]
12 pages, LaTeX; Proceedings of the MRST-2003 conference; talk given by S. R. Valluri