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Derivative expansions of Euclidean thermal effective actions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

I compute the derivative expansion of an effective action at finite temperature using the imaginary time approach. I show that it is a well behaved expansion giving a unique seriers contrary to previous results. This disparity is shown to originate in the choice of thermal Green functions used in the calculations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808382,
  title  = {Derivative expansions of Euclidean thermal effective actions},
  author = {T. S. Evans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808382},
  year   = {2007}
}

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