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Gauge-Invariant Renormalization Group at Finite Temperature

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We propose a gauge-invariant version of Wilson Renormalization Group for thermal field theories in real time. The application to the computation of the thermal masses of the gauge bosons in an SU(N) Yang-Mills theory is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9611038,
  title  = {Gauge-Invariant Renormalization Group at Finite Temperature},
  author = {Marco D'Attanasio and Massimo Pietroni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9611038},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

23 pages, latex2e, 1 EPS figure. The discussions of BRS identities and of the RG kernel have been modified. Final version, to appear on Nucl. Phys. B

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