Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangians and asymptotic analysis in 1+1 QED. Part I: two-loop

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2010)036MaRDI QIDQ407060zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors D. G. C. Mckeon, Idrish Huet, Christian Schubert

Publication date 29 August 2014

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5315

zbMATH Keywords

field theories in lower dimensionsnonperturbative effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We continue an effort to obtain information on the QED perturbation series at high loop orders, and particularly on the issue of large cancellations inside gauge invariant classes of graphs, using the example of the l - loop N - photon amplitudes in the limit of large photons numbers and low photon energies. As was previously shown, high-order information on these amplitudes can be obtained from a nonperturbative formula, due to Affleck et al., for the imaginary part of the QED effective lagrangian in a constant field. The procedure uses Borel analysis and leads, under some plausible assumptions, to a number of nontrivial predictions already at the three-loop level. Their direct verification would require a calculation of this `Euler-Heisenberg lagrangian' at three-loops, which seems presently out of reach. Motivated by previous work by Dunne and Krasnansky on Euler-Heisenberg lagrangians in various dimensions, in the present work we initiate a new line of attack on this problem by deriving and proving the analogous predictions in the simpler setting of 1+1 dimensional QED. In the first part of this series, we obtain a generalization of the formula of Affleck et al. to this case, and show that, for both Scalar and Spinor QED, it correctly predicts the leading asymptotic behaviour of the weak field expansion coefficients of the two loop Euler-Heisenberg lagrangians.

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