In-out formalism for one-loop effective actions in QED and gravity

DOI10.1007/S11182-017-0971-4MaRDI QIDQ1706178zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peng Zhang

Publication date 21 March 2018

Published in Russian Physics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08719

zbMATH Keywords

gravitationquantum electrodynamicsspontaneous pairs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: The in-out formalism is a systematic and powerful method for finding the effective actions in an electromagnetic field and a curved spacetime provided that the field equation has explicitly known solutions. The effective action becomes complex when pairs of charged particles are produced due to an electric field and curved spacetime. This may lead to a conjecture of one-to-one correspondence between the vacuum polarization (real part) and the vacuum persistence (imaginary part). We illustrate the one-loop effective action in a constant electric field in a Minkowski spacetime and in a uniform electric field in a two-dimensional (anti-) de sitter space.

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