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most citedQED in inhomogeneous magnetic fields

23 citations · 135 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

hep-th2020★ 1 cited

Non-perturbative path integral quantization of the electroweak model: the Maxwell integration

M. P. Fry

The non-perturbative path integral quantization of the electroweak model is confronted with an apparent instability when integrating over the Maxwell potential due to the fas…

hep-th2018★ 1 cited

Strong, Random field behavior of the Euclidean Dirac propagator

M. P. Fry

The one-loop effective action of quantum electrodynamics in four dimensions is shown to be controlled by the Euclidean Dirac propagator in a background potential. After separat…

hep-th2015★ 5 cited

Non-perturbative quantization of the electroweak model's electrodynamic sector

M. P. Fry

Consider the Euclidean functional integral representation of any physical process in the electroweak model. Integrating out the fermion degrees of freedom introduces twenty-four fe…

hep-th2011★ 2 cited

Stability of QED

M. P. Fry

It is shown for a class of random, time-independent, square-integrable, three-dimensional magnetic fields that the one-loop effective fermion action of four-dimensional QED increas…

hep-th2010★ 6 cited

Nonperturbative results for the mass dependence of the QED fermion determinant

M. P. Fry

The fermion determinant in four-dimensional quantum electrodynamics in the presence of O(2)XO(3) symmetric background gauge fields with a nonvanishing global chiral anomaly is cons…

hep-th2006★ 9 cited

Evidence for mass zeros of the fermionic determinant in four-dimensional quantum electrodynamics

M. P. Fry

The Euclidean fermionic determinant in four-dimensional quantum electrodynamics is considered as a function of the fermionic mass for a class of symmetric backgro…

hep-lat2004

Fermion Determinants: Some Recent Analytic Results

M. P. Fry

The use of known analytic results for the continuum fermion determinants in QCD and QED as benchmarks for zero lattice spacing extrapolations of lattice fermion determinants is pro…

hep-th2003★ 12 cited

Fermion determinant for general background gauge fields

M. P. Fry

An exact representation of the Euclidean fermion determinant in two dimensions for centrally symmetric, finite-ranged Abelian background fields is derived. Input data are the wave…

hep-th2001★ 11 cited

Fermion Determinants

M. P. Fry

The current status of bounds on and limits of fermion determinants in two, three and four dimensions in QED and QCD is reviewed. A new lower bound on the two-dimensional QED determ…

hep-th2000★ 6 cited

Mass zeros in the one-loop effective actions of QED in 1+1 and 3+1 dimensions

M. P. Fry

It is known that the one-loop effective action of is a quadratic in the field strength when the fermion mass is zero: all potential higher order contributions beyond seco…

hep-th1999★ 5 cited

Chiral limit of the two-dimensional fermionic determinant in a general magnetic field

M. P. Fry

We consider the effective action for massive two-dimensional QED in flat Euclidean space-time in the background of a general square-integrable magnetic field with finite range. It…

hep-th1996★ 16 cited

Paramagnetism, zero modes and mass singularities in QED in , and dimensions

M. P. Fry

The interplay of paramagnetism, zero modes of the Dirac operator and fermionic mass singularities on the fermionic determinants in quantum electrodynamics in two, three and four di…

hep-th1996★ 23 cited

QED in inhomogeneous magnetic fields

M. P. Fry

A lower bound is placed on the fermionic determinant of Euclidean quantum electrodynamics in three dimensions in the presence of a smooth, finite--flux, static, unidirectional magn…

hep-th1995★ 4 cited

QED in strong, finite-flux magnetic fields

M. P. Fry

Lower bounds are placed on the fermionic determinants of Euclidean quantum electrodynamics in two and four dimensions in the presence of a smooth, finite-flux, static, unidirection…

hep-th1994★ 14 cited

Fermion Determinants in Static, Inhomogeneous Magnetic Fields

M. P. Fry

The renormalized fermionic determinant of QED in 3 + 1 dimensions, $\mbox{det}_{ren}$, in a static, unidirectional, inhomogeneous magnetic field with finite flux can be calculated…

hep-th1993★ 20 cited

Fermionic Determinant of the Massive Schwinger Model

M. P. Fry

A representation for the fermionic determinant of the massive Schwinger model, or , is obtained that makes a clean separation between the Schwinger model and its massive cou…