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On mass dependences of the one-loop effective action in simple backgrounds

O-Kab Kwon, Choonkyu Lee, Hyunsoo Min

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0003040

Abstract

If background fields are soft on the scale set by mass of the particle involved, a reliable approximation to the field-theoretic one-loop effective action is obtained by a systematic large mass expansion involving higher-order Seeley-DeWitt coefficients. Moreover, if the small mass limit of the effective action in a particular background has been found by some other means, the two informations may be used to infer the corresponding result for arbitrary mass values. This method is used to estimate the one-loop contribution to the QCD vacuum tunneling amplitude by quarks of arbitrary mass.

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