Effective QED actions: Representations, gauge invariance, anomalies, and mass expansions

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 7444-7459

  Seminara, D ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0345921239     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.57.7444     Document Type: Article

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