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Generic Rules for High Temperature Dimensional Reduction and Their Application to the Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We formulate the rules for dimensional reduction of a generic finite temperature gauge theory to a simpler three-dimensional effective bosonic theory in terms of a matching of Green's functions in the full and the effective theory, and present a computation of a generic set of 1- and 2-loop graphs needed for the application of these rules. As a concrete application we determine the explicit mapping of the physical parameters of the standard electroweak theory to a three-dimensional SU(2)xU(1) gauge-Higgs theory. We argue that this three-dimensional theory has a universal character and appears as an effective theory for many extensions of the Standard Model.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9508379,
  title  = {Generic Rules for High Temperature Dimensional Reduction and Their Application to the Standard Model},
  author = {K. Kajantie and M. Laine and K. Rummukainen and M. Shaposhnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9508379},
  year   = {2008}
}

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44 pages of LaTeX, 9 figures as uuencoded compressed postscript

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