World-line instantons and the Schwinger effect as a Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin exact path integral

DOI10.1063/1.4908556zbMath1317.81261arXiv1407.0987OpenAlexW3098462033MaRDI QIDQ5178206

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Publication date: 13 March 2015

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0987

zbMATH Keywords

path integralSchwinger effectzeta function regularisation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Functional analytic techniques in dynamical systems; zeta functions, (Ruelle-Frobenius) transfer operators, etc. (37C30)

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Worldsheet instantons and the amplitude for string pair production in an external field as a WKB exact functional integral ⋮ Holographic description of noncommutative Schwinger effect ⋮ Erratum: “World-line instantons and the Schwinger effect as a Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin exact path integral” [J. Math. Phys. 56, 022111 (2015)]

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