Fermion determinants and effective actions

DOI10.1063/1.531870MaRDI QIDQ4338340zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Mukku

Publication date 28 May 1997

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607061

zbMATH Keywords

effective actionfermionsheat-kernel methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: Configuration space heat-kernel methods are used to evaluate the determinant and hence the effective action for an SU(2) doublet of fermions in interaction with a {it covariantly constant} SU(2) background field. Exact results are exhibited which are applicable to {it any} Abelian background on which the only restriction is that $(B^2-E^2)$ and $EcdotB$ are constant. Such fields include the uniform field and the plane wave field. The fermion propagator is also given in terms of gauge covariant objects. An extension to include finite temperature effects is given and the probability for creation of fermions from the vacuum at finite temperature in the presence of an electric field is discussed.

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