2007/11/30 by Gerald V. Dunne, Jin Hur, Choonkyu Lee +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.77.045004
published as Phys.Rev.D77:045004,2008 · 30 pages, 9 figures, RevTex
arxiv created 2007/11/30 · openalex publication_date 2008/02/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Our previously developed calculational method (the partial-wave cutoff method) is employed to evaluate explicitly scalar one-loop effective actions in a class of radially symmetric background gauge fields. Our method proves to be particularly effective when it is used in conjunction with a systematic WKB series for the large partial-wave contribution to the effective action. By comparing these numerically exact calculations against the predictions based on the large-mass expansion and derivative expansion, we discuss the validity ranges of the latter approximation methods.