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Wilson Renormalization Group formulation of Real Time thermal field theories

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

Abstract

We apply Renormalization Group techniques to the Real Time formulation of thermal field theory. Due to the separation between the T=0T=0 and the T0T\neq 0 parts of the propagator in this formalism, one can derive exact evolution equations for the Green functions describing the effect of integrating out thermal fluctuations of increasing wavelengths, the initial conditions being the renormalized Green functions of the T=0T=0 theory. As a first application, we study the phase transition for the real scalar theory, computing the order of the transition, the critical temperature, and critical exponents, in different approximations to the evolution equations for the scalar potential.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9601375,
  title  = {Wilson Renormalization Group formulation of Real Time thermal field theories},
  author = {Marco D'Attanasio and Massimo Pietroni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9601375},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

25 pages, latex, 4 ps figures. New evaluation of the RG kernel, comments on the critical limit and new references added. Version to be published on Nucl. Phys. B