Open string pair creation from worldsheet instantons
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✦ hep-th
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creationpairinstantonsopenstringconstantcorrespondingderive
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Worldline instantons provide a particularly elegant way to derive Schwinger's well-known formula for the pair creation rate due to a constant electric field in quantum electrodynamics. In this note, we show how to extend this method to the corresponding problem of open string pair creation.
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