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Evaluating transport coefficients in real time thermal field theory

Nuclear Theory 2012-11-13 v1

Abstract

Transport coefficients in a hadronic gas have been calculated earlier in the imaginary time formulation of thermal field theory. The steps involved are to relate the defining retarded correlation function to the corresponding time-ordered one and to evaluate the latter in the conventional perturbation expansion. Here we carry out both the steps in the real time formulation.

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@article{arxiv.1211.2588,
  title  = {Evaluating transport coefficients in real time thermal field theory},
  author = {S. Mallik and Sourav Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2588},
  year   = {2012}
}