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We argue that the asymptotic condition should not be applied in the derivation of the real time formalism of thermal field theory. It is shown that, contrary to popular belief, the generating functional of time ordered Green functions does…
In this paper, we review the set of rules specific to the calculation of the imaginary part of a Green's function at finite temperature in the real-time formalisms. Emphasis is put on the clarification of a recent controversy concerning…
In this paper it is shown how the generating functional for Green's functions in relativistic quantum field theory and in thermal field theory can be evaluated in terms of a standard quantum mechanical path integral. With this calculational…
Real-time thermal field theory is known in the two flavors ``closed-time path formalism'' and ``thermo field dynamics''. With a certain choice of parameters the full two-point functions of these models are identical, hence a scheme to…
Based on the closed time path formalism, a new Feynman rule for directly calculating the retarded and advanced Green functions is deduced. This Feynman rule is used to calculate the two-point self-energy and three-point vertex correction in…
For thermal equilibrium systems it is shown, how the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger boundary condition may be used to factorize the generating functional of Green functions at least on the level of the full two-point function. Genuine…
The effect of the contribution of the vertical part of the real time path is studied completely in the case of two points functions. Indeed, this vertical part generally contributes in the calculation of a given graph. Moreover, this…
We apply Renormalization Group techniques to the Real Time formulation of thermal field theory. Due to the separation between the $T=0$ and the $T\neq 0$ parts of the propagator in this formalism, one can derive exact evolution equations…
A new time contour is used to derive real-time thermal field theory. Unlike previous path integral approaches, no contributions to the generating functional are dropped.
Relativistic formalism of Green's functions is dicussed in QCD and QED,where the relativistic Green's functions are constructed using the Schwinger proper time formalism and the Fock-Feynman-Schwinger method.As a result a simple and exact…
In formal scattering theory, Green functions are obtained as solutions of a distributional equation. In this paper, we use the Sturm-Liouville theory to compute Green functions within a rigorous mathematical theory. We shall show that both…
Thermal field theory is reviewed briefly. It is noted that, until recently, it was not known what type of real-time Green function is being calculated in the Euclidean approach. The formal answer to this question is then given and the…
Time evolution equations for dynamical systems can often be derived from generating functionals. Examples are Newton's equations of motion in classical dynamics which can be generated within the Lagrange or the Hamiltonian formalism. We…
It is shown that every Feynman integral can be interpreted as Green function of some linear differential operator with constant coefficients. This definition is equivalent to usual one but needs no regularization and application of…
Following the successful construction of the finite T real-time formalism in temporal axial gauge, we attempt to further study the equivalent new imaginary-time formalism of James and Landshoff based on the same Hamiltonian approach in the…
We rewrite the imaginary-time formalism of finite temperature field theory in a form that all graphs used in calculating physical processes do not have any loops. Any production of a particle from a heat bath which is itself not thermalized…
We study the dynamical equation of the time-ordered Green's function at finite temperature. We show that the time-ordered Green's function obeys a conventional Dyson equation only at equilibrium and in the limit of zero-temperature. In all…
We consider thermal $n$-point Green functions in the framework of quantum field theory at finite temperature. We show how analytic continuations from imaginary to real energies relate these functions originally defined in the imaginary-time…
The complex-time formalism is developed in the framework of the path-integral formalism, to be used for analysis of the quantum tunneling phenomena. We show that subleading complex-time saddle-points do not account for the right WKB result.…
A first-principles derivation is given of the imaginary part of a Green's function in real-time thermal field theory. The analysis and its conclusions are simpler than in the usual circled-vertex formalism. The relationship to Cutkosky-like…