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  1. Abstract We consider reheating for a charged inflaton which is minimally coupled toelectromagnetism. The evolution of such an inflaton induces a time-dependentmass for the photon. We show how the massive photon propagator can beexpressed as a spatial Fourier mode sum involving three different sorts ofmode functions, just like the constant mass case. We develop accurateanalytic approximations for these mode functions, and use them to approximatethe effective force exerted on the inflaton 0-mode. This effective forceallows one to simply compute the evolution of the inflaton 0-mode and tofollow the progress of reheating. 
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  2. A bstract We consider quantum gravitational corrections to Maxwell’s equations on flat space background. Although the vacuum polarization is highly gauge dependent, we explicitly show that this gauge dependence is canceled by contributions from the source which disturbs the effective field and the observer who measures it. Our final result is a gauge independent, real and causal effective field equation that can be used in the same way as the classical Maxwell equation. 
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