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Multidimensional Worldline Instantons

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arxiv hep-th/0608020 v1 pith:3ZG3FHEI submitted 2006-08-02 hep-th

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We extend the worldline instanton technique to compute the vacuum pair production rate for spatially inhomogeneous electric background fields, with the spatial inhomogeneity being genuinely two or three dimensional, both for the magnitude and direction of the electric field. Other techniques, such as WKB, have not been applied to such higher dimensional problems. Our method exploits the instanton dominance of the worldline path integral expression for the effective action.

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