Construction of the Pauli-Villars-regulated Dirac vacuum in electromagnetic fields

DOI10.1007/s00205-012-0609-1zbMath1269.81202arXiv1204.2893MaRDI QIDQ1949325

Philippe Gravejat, Mathieu Lewin, Christian Hainzl, Éric Séré

Publication date: 7 May 2013

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2893

zbMATH Keywords

vacuum polarization; quantum electrodynamics; Pauli-Villars regularization; photon propagator; Dirac vacuum; divergent Feynman integrals; external electromagnetic source

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81Q05: Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics

81T15: Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory

81T18: Feynman diagrams

81V10: Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics

78A25: Electromagnetic theory (general)

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