Nonperturbative one-loop effective action for electrodynamics in curved space-time

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Fucci, Guglielmo ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70350740972     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3231787     Document Type: Article

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