Abstract
The topological mass term in the Euler-Heisenberg effective action for (2 + 1)-dimensional spinor QED is studied by functional and canonical methods. The mass term is associated with a quantum Hall effect in the vacuum, and with a vacuum charge in the special case of a pure magnetic field. This charge is shown to become depleted at non-zero temperature.
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