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One-loop effective action for an arbitrary theory

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Using the diagram technique, we obtain formulas for the divergent part of the one-loop effective action for an arbitrary minimal operator in four-dimensional curved space and for an arbitrary nonminimal operator in flat space.

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    P. I. Pronin

  2. Moscow State University, USSR

    K. V. Stepanyantz

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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 109, No. 2, pp. 215–231, November, 1996.

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Pronin, P.I., Stepanyantz, K.V. One-loop effective action for an arbitrary theory. Theor Math Phys 109, 1410–1422 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02072007

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