Proper-time methods in the presence of non-constant background fields
Abstract
A formalism is developed to enable the construction of the effective action and related quantities in QED for the case of time-varying background electric fields. Some examples are studied and evidence is sought for a possible transition to a phase in which chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken. YCTP-P14-94
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