Electrodynamics in a background chiral field

DOI10.1142/S0217732311037212zbMATH Open1274.81237arXiv1109.6301OpenAlexW1981970008MaRDI QIDQ2861141FDOQ2861141

Authors: F. T. Brandt, D. G. C. Mckeon, A. Patrushev 

Publication date: 12 November 2013

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the one loop effective action in four dimensional Euclidean space for a background chiral field coupled to a spinor field. It proves possible to find an exact expression for this action if the mass $m$ of the spinor vanishes. If $m$ does not vanish, one can make a perturbative expansion in powers of the axial field that contributes to the chiral field, while treating the contribution of the vector field exactly when it is a constant. The analogous problem in two dimensions is also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6301

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zbMATH Keywords

effective actionaxial fieldSchwinger expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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• CHIRALITY IN ELECTRODYNAMICS
• Effective action for Dirac spinors in the presence of general uniform electromagnetic fields.
• Chiral limit of the two-dimensional fermionic determinant in a general magnetic field
• Angular momentum inheritance from the Schwinger effect in (chromo)electromagnetic fields
• Mass dependence of spinor effective actions in gauge-theories
• Nonlinear (chiral) \(p\)-form electrodynamics

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