The One Loop Effective Action of QED for a General Class of Electric Fields
Abstract
We compute the effective action of QED at one loop order for an electric field which points in the z direction and depends arbitrarily upon the light cone time coordinate, x+ = (x0 + x3)/2. This calculation generalizes Schwinger's formula for the vacuum persistence probability in the presence of a constant electric field.
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