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Three Approaches to Classical Thermal Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-03-07 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study three different functional approaches to classical thermal field theory, which turn out to be the classical counterparts of three well-known different formulations of quantum thermal field theory: the Closed-Time Path (CTP) formalism, the Thermofield Dynamics (TFD) and the Matsubara approach.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1008.5135,
  title  = {Three Approaches to Classical Thermal Field Theory},
  author = {E. Gozzi and R. Penco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.5135},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

56 pages, 3 figures, uses FeynMP

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