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arxiv hep-th/0406216 v1 pith:FS5ANAAL submitted 2004-06-23 hep-th hep-lathep-ph

Heisenberg-Euler Effective Lagrangians : Basics and Extensions

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I present a pedagogical review of Heisenberg-Euler effective Lagrangians, beginning with the original work of Heisenberg and Euler, and Weisskopf, for the one loop effective action of quantum electrodynamics in a constant electromagnetic background field, and then summarizing some of the important applications and generalizations to inhomogeneous background fields, nonabelian backgrounds, and higher loop effective Lagrangians.

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