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Effective Actions (Lagrangians) in Quantum Field Theory

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The Development of the Action Principle

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Most of the relativistic quantum field theories start out with a highly speculative object: the quantum vacuum.

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Dittrich, W. (2021). Effective Actions (Lagrangians) in Quantum Field Theory. In: The Development of the Action Principle . SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69105-9_15

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