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Title: New tests and applications of the worldline path integral in the first order formalism

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Centro Atomico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, 8400 Bariloche (Argentina)
  2. Departamento de Fisica de Particulas and Instituto Galego de Fisica de Altas Enerxias, Facultade de Fisica, Universidade de Santiago, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

We present different nonperturbative calculations within the context of Migdal's representation for the propagator and effective action of quantum particles. We calculate the exact propagators and effective actions for Dirac, scalar, and Proca fields in the presence of constant electromagnetic fields, for an even-dimensional spacetime.

OSTI ID:
20776782
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 73, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.045010; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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