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arxiv: 1305.3133 · v2 · pith:DVLPQBGZnew · submitted 2013-05-14 · ✦ hep-th

Fractional Effective Action at strong electromagnetic fields

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords deltaeffectivebehaviorfieldslagrangianlogarithmicactionanomalous
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In 1936, Weisskopf showed that for vanishing electric or magnetic fields the strong-field behavior of the one loop Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian of quantum electro dynamics (QED) is logarithmic. Here we generalize this result for different limits of the Lorentz invariants \(\vec{E}^2-\vec{B}^2\) and \(\vec{B}\cdot\vec{E}\). The logarithmic dependence can be interpreted as a lowest-order manifestation of an anomalous power behavior of the effective Lagrangian of QED, with critical exponents \(\delta=e^2/(12\pi)\) for spinor QED, and \(\delta_S=\delta/4\) for scalar QED.

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