Two-loop self-dual Euler-Heisenberg lagrangians 2. Imaginary part and Borel analysis

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 991-1019

  Dunne, Gerald V ^a   Schubert, Christian ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic Processes and Properties; Nonperturbative Effects; Renormalization Regularization and Renormalons

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044471665     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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