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Thermalization and Lyapunov Exponents in the Yang-Mills-Higgs Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We investigate thermalization processes occurring at different time scales in the Yang-Mills-Higgs system at high temperatures. We determine the largest Lyapunov exponent associated with the gauge fields and verify its relation to the perturbatively calculated damping rate of a static gauge boson.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9608181,
  title  = {Thermalization and Lyapunov Exponents in the Yang-Mills-Higgs Theory},
  author = {U. Heinz and C. Hu and S. Leupold and S. Matinyan and B. Muller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9608181},
  year   = {2008}
}

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33 pages (revtex), 4 PS figures, submitted to PRD