Field Theory Without Feynman Diagrams: One-Loop Effective Actions

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Traditional perturbative techniques and more recent Bern-Kosower rules are derived in a general first-quantized particle formalism in complete detail. Several string techniques are elegantly given first-quantized point-particle versions.