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Visit Stack ExchangeIn quantum field theory, an effective action is a modified version of the action which takes into account quantum mechanical corrections. The effective action action is a generating functional of the one-particle-irreducible (1PI) diagrams, which are diagrams that cannot be broken into two disconnected diagrams by cutting an internal propagator.