The Heisenberg-Euler Effective Action: 75 years on

Published 7 Feb 2012 in hep-th and hep-ph | (1202.1557v1)

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.

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Gerald V. Dunne

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