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The single-loop corrections to the Lagrangian of a uniform, constant electromagnetic field are found which include the anomalous magnetic moment and electric dipole moment of the electron. The imaginary part of the effective Lagrangian, which determines the probability of electron-positron pair production is found. The asymptotic behavior of the effective action is studied for supercritical magnetic fields H » H0 = m2/e with the dependence of the anomalous magnetic moment on H taken into account.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 3, pp. 37–42, March, 1987.
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Lavrov, P.M. Radiative corrections to the Lagrangian of the electromagnetic field. Soviet Physics Journal 30, 213–217 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00897857
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00897857