On the physical interpretation of effective actions using Schwinger's formula

DOI10.1007/BF00750068MaRDI QIDQ1900479zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Silvio J. Rabello, Luiz C. de Albuquerque, C. Farina, Arvind Narayan Vaidya

Publication date 30 November 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9404087

zbMATH Keywords

regularization prescriptionSchwinger's formula for one-loop effective actionssummation of energies associated with the zero-point oscillations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We show explicitly that Schwinger's formula for one-loop effective actions corresponds to the summation of energies associated with the zero-point oscillations of the fields. We begin with a formal proof, and after that we confirm it using a regularization prescription.

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