An Exact QED_{3+1} Effective Action
arXiv:hep-th/9710062 · doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01429-9
Abstract
We compute the exact QED_{3+1} effective action for fermions in the presence of a family of static but spatially inhomogeneous magnetic field profiles. An asymptotic expansion of this exact effective action yields an all-orders derivative expansion, the first terms of which agree with independent derivative expansion computations. These results generalize analogous earlier results by Cangemi et al in QED_{2+1}.
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