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The Unique Derivative Expansion for Thermal Effective Actions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

I show that there is a unique and well behaved derivative expansion of an effective action at finite temperature. The result is true for all formalisms including the popular Closed Time Path and Imaginary Time methods.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808383,
  title  = {The Unique Derivative Expansion for Thermal Effective Actions},
  author = {T. S. Evans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808383},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

RevTeX, 4 pages, 3 Feynman diagrams as eps files. Talk given at TFT98 - the 5th Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and their applications, Regensburg, Germany, 10th-14th August 1998