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Reliability of the Optimized Perturbation Theory for scalar fields at finite temperature

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-12 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The thermodynamics of a massless scalar field with a quartic interaction is studied up to third order in the Optimized Perturbation Theory (OPT) method. A comparison with other nonperturbative approaches is performed such that the reliability of OPT is accessed.

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@article{arxiv.1211.7079,
  title  = {Reliability of the Optimized Perturbation Theory for scalar fields at finite temperature},
  author = {R. L. S. Farias and D. L. Teixeira and R. O. Ramos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.7079},
  year   = {2015}
}

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3 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings contribution for Hadrons XII