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Resumming the pressure

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

The convergence properties of the resummed thermal perturbation series for the thermodynamic pressure are investigated by comparison with the exact results obtained in large-N phi^4 theory and possibilities for improvements are discussed. By going beyond conventional resummed perturbation theory, renormalization has to be carried out nonperturbatively yet consistently. This is exemplified in large-N phi^4_4 and in a special large-N \phi^3_6 model that mimics QED in the limit of large flavour number.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808480,
  title  = {Resumming the pressure},
  author = {Anton Rebhan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808480},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages two-column REVTEX, 7 postscript figures; talk given at the 5th International Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and Their Applications, Regensburg, 10 - 14 August 1998 (minor corrections)