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Frozen ghosts in thermal gauge field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-12-21 v1

Abstract

We review an alternative formulation of gauge field theories at finite temperature where unphysical degrees of freedom of gauge fields and the Faddeev-Popov ghosts are kept at zero temperature.

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@article{arxiv.0903.1865,
  title  = {Frozen ghosts in thermal gauge field theory},
  author = {P. V. Landshoff and A. Rebhan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1865},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages

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