Probing the quantum vacuum : perturbative effective action approach in quantum electrodynamics and its application /
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| Author / Creator: | Dittrich, Walter. |
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2000. |
| Description: | viii, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Springer tracts in modern physics, 0081-3869 ; v. 166 Springer tracts in modern physics ; 166. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4314823 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Nonlinear Electrodynamics: Quantum Theory
- 3. Nonlinear Electrodynamics: Effective-Action Approach
- 4. QED in Two Spatial Dimensions
- 5. Scattering of Light by Light
- App. A. Units, Metric and the Gamma Matrices
- App. B. Invariants and Spectral Representation
- App. C. More about the Communtator [sigma][mu][nu] of Dirac Matrices
- App. D. Elementary Calculations
- App. E. Finite-Temperature Coordinate Frame
- App. F. Two-Loop Effcctive Action of QED at Zero Temperature.
