The Heisenberg-Euler Effective Action: 75 years on

On this 75th anniversary of the publication of the Heisenberg-Euler paper on the full non-perturbative one-loop effective action for quantum electrodynamics I review their paper and discuss some of the impact it has had on quantum field theory.

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10 pages; review talk at QFEXT11

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Quantum electrodynamics
effective action
effective field theory
effective action: nonperturbative
quantum electrodynamics

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