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Simple Physical Approach to Thermal Cutting Rules

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A first-principles derivation is given of the imaginary part of a Green's function in real-time thermal field theory. The analysis and its conclusions are simpler than in the usual circled-vertex formalism. The relationship to Cutkosky-like cutting rules is explained.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9606426,
  title  = {Simple Physical Approach to Thermal Cutting Rules},
  author = {P V Landshoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9606426},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, plain tex, 5 figures embedded with epsf -- 2 typos corrected