Spinor Field Singular Functions in QED with Strong External Backgrounds

We construct and study singular functions in strong-field QED with two external electromagnetic fields that represent principally different types of external backgrounds, the first one belongs to the class of so-called t -potential electric steps (electric-like fields that are switched on and off at initial and final time instants), and the second one belongs to the class of so-called x -potential electric steps (time-independent electric-like fields of constant direction that are concentrated in a restricted spatial area). As the first background ( T -constant electric field) is an uniform electric field which acts during a finite time interval T , whereas as the second background ( L -constant electric field) is a constant electric field confined between two capacitor plates separated by a large distance L . For the both cases we find in- and out-solutions of the Dirac equation in terms of light cone variables. With the help of these solutions, we construct Fock-Schwinger proper-time integral representations for all the singular functions that provide nonperturbative (with respect to the external backgrounds) calculations of any transition amplitudes and mean values of any physical quantities. Considering calculations in the T -constant field and in the L -constant field as different regularizations of the corresponding calculations in the constant uniform electric field, we have demonstrated their equivalence for sufficiently large T and L .