Derivative Expansion of the Effective Action
- 25 November 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 55 (22), 2394-2397
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.2394
Abstract
A method is described for the calculation of derivative terms in the effective action to one loop. Sample calculations are made of the two- and four-derivative terms for a single scalar field, and of the two-derivative terms for scalar field theory.
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