Some problems of the kinetic description of vacuum particle creation in strong fields
Journal of Samara State Technical University, Ser. Physical and Mathematical Sciences, no. 2 (2013), pp. 206-214.

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Some of the actual problems in the theory of vacuum particle creation in strong field are discussed.
Keywords: vacuum pair creation, kinetic equation, perturbation theory.
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S. A. Smolyanskii; A. V. Prozorkevich; M. Bonitz. Some problems of the kinetic description of vacuum particle creation in strong fields. Journal of Samara State Technical University, Ser. Physical and Mathematical Sciences, no. 2 (2013), pp. 206-214. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/VSGTU_2013_2_a23/

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