Covariant Effective Action for Quantum Particle with Coordinate-Dependent Mass
Abstract
Using a covariant background field method we calculate the one-loop quantum effective action for a particle with coordinate-dependent mass moving slowly through a one-dimensional configuration space. The procedure can easily be extended to any desired loop order.
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