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hep-th2006★ 80 cited
Multidimensional Worldline Instantons
Gerald V. Dunne, Qing-hai Wang
We extend the worldline instanton technique to compute the vacuum pair production rate for spatially inhomogeneous electric background fields, with the spatial inhomogeneity being…
hep-th2006★ 32 cited
Fluctuations about Cosmological Instantons
Gerald V. Dunne, Qing-hai Wang
We study the semiclassical fluctuation problem around bounce solutions for a self-interacting scalar field in curved space. As in flat space, the fluctuation problem separates into…
hep-th2006★ 229 cited
Worldline Instantons II: The Fluctuation Prefactor
Gerald V. Dunne, Holger Gies, Christian Schubert +1
In a previous paper [1], it was shown that the worldline expression for the nonperturbative imaginary part of the QED effective action can be approximated by the contribution of a…