Closed-form two-loop Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian in a self-dual background
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hep-ph
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lagrangiantwo-loopbackgroundeffectiveeuler-heisenbergfunctionscalarself-dual
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We show that the two-loop Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian for scalar QED in a constant Euclidean self-dual background has a simple explicit closed form expression in terms of the digamma function. This result leads to a simple analysis of the weak- and strong-field expansions, the two-loop scalar QED beta function, and the analytic continuation properties of the effective Lagrangian and its imaginary part.
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