English

Spacelike thermal correlators are almost time-independent

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-01-11 v2

Abstract

We show that, in relativistic field theories, the thermal correlation function of N bosonic operators <O_1(x_1,t_1) O_2(x_2,t_2) .. O_N(x_N,t_N)> at sufficiently spacelike-separated points shows exponentially weak dependence on the time variables t_1,...,t_N, when the space separations are held fixed. For classical thermal field theory, the time dependence vanishes when all points are spacelike separated

Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.02641,
  title  = {Spacelike thermal correlators are almost time-independent},
  author = {Simon Caron-Huot and Guy D. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.02641},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures. Slight rewriting of conclusions

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