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Magnetic Mass in Hot Scalar Electrodynamics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Using the Slavnov-Taylor identities we prove that the so-called "magnetic mass" is exactly equal to zero within hot scalar electrodynamics. The same result is valid for hot QED and seems for any abelian theory but this is not the case for hot QCD where one expects that \m0\m\ne 0.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9602308,
  title  = {Magnetic Mass in Hot Scalar Electrodynamics},
  author = {O. K. Kalashnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9602308},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, Latex

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