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arxiv: 1202.1557 · v1 · pith:YEGXUJRQnew · submitted 2012-02-07 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph

The Heisenberg-Euler Effective Action: 75 years on

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On this 75th anniversary of the publication of the Heisenberg-Euler paper on the full non-perturbative one-loop effective action for quantum electrodynamics I review their paper and discuss some of the impact it has had on quantum field theory.

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