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9789810217723

Banff/Cap Workshop on Thermal Field Theory

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    9789810217723

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    9810217722

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1994-08-01
  • Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC
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Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on thermal field theories and their applications.

Table of Contents

Aspects of Thermal Field Theoryp. 1
Thermal Quantum Field Theory and External Field Problemsp. 26
Thermalization of the Higgs Fieldp. 34
Computing Transport Coefficients in Relativistic Field Theoryp. 43
Real Time Propagator From First Quantizationp. 49
The Finite-Temperature Renormalization Group Applied to [actual symbol not reproducible] Theory and QCDp. 55
Heating Field Theory the "Environmentally Friendly" Wayp. 63
Quantization of Damped Harmonic Oscillator, Thermal Field Theory and q-Groupsp. 71
A New Time Contour for Thermal Field Theoriesp. 77
Why the Real Time Formalism Doesn't Factorisep. 83
The Retarded-Advanced Basis in the Real Time Formalismp. 89
Background Spacetime for Finite Temperature Field Theoryp. 95
O(N) Vector Models in the Limit [actual symbol not reproducible] and Finite Temperaturep. 104
Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Thermal Physicsp. 109
The Problem of Ground State in Thermo-Field Dynamicsp. 146
Feynman Diagram Recipes in TFDp. 155
Entangled States and Diagramatics at [actual symbol not reproducible]p. 162
Entropy in Inhomogeneous TFDp. 168
A Formulation of Time-Resolved Optical Spectrum for Transient Resonant Light Scatteringp. 174
Field Theoretical Background for Thermal Physicsp. 180
Finite Temperature Effective Potential in the Hartree-Fock Approximationp. 205
On the Nature of the Abelian Higgs Model Phase Transitionp. 215
The Effective Potential for Gauge Theories and at Finite Temperaturep. 221
Non-Equilibrium Electrodynamics in the Large N Expansionp. 227
Canonical Quantisation of Thermal Gauge Theoriesp. 243
Debye Screening Length in the Imaginary-Time Formalism in the Temporal Gaugep. 249
Thermal Self-Energies Near Zero Four-Momentump. 255
Dimensional Continuation of Gauge-Invariant Quantities in Yang-Mills Theoryp. 261
Parametrization and Gauge Invariance of the Transition Temperaturep. 266
Three-Dimensional [actual symbol not reproducible] Model with an External Non-Abelian Field and Temperaturep. 273
Hard Thermal Loops, Chern-Simons Theory and the Quark-Gluon Plasmap. 279
Gauge Invariance and Disequilibrium in Chern-Simons Theoryp. 287
Phase Transitions in Non-Minimally Coupled Chern-Simons Scalar QEDp. 297
Thermodynamics of Non-Abelian Chern-Simons Particlesp. 303
Quantum Statistical Field Theory in Gravitation and Cosmologyp. 309
Dynamics of Phase Transitions in the Early Universep. 347
Phase Transitions in the Early Universep. 353
The Role of Local Defects on Phase Transitions in the Early Universe. Interacting Cosmic Stringsp. 364
Fluctuations About Defectsp. 370
Real-Time Propagator in the First Quantized Formalism: Relativistic Particle and Stringsp. 374
Cosmology with Matter Creationp. 381
Black Holes as P-Branesp. 387
Hot Hodgepodge: Banff, 1993p. 400
Perturbative Hot Gauge Theories - Recent Resultsp. 417
New Developments in Quark-Gluon Transport Theoryp. 428
Infrared and Mass Singularities at Finite Temperaturep. 440
Cancellation of Infrared Divergences in QED at Nonzero Temperaturep. 450
Soft Fields and Hard Particles in Hot Gauge Plasmasp. 456
Plasmon Decay: From QED to QCDp. 463
Gauge-Independent Extraction of the Next-to-Leading Order Debye Mass from the Gluon Propagatorp. 469
Pion Interactions in Thermal Field Theoriesp. 477
Introduction to Z[subscript N] Symmetry in SU[subscript N] Gauge Theories at Finite Temperaturesp. 483
Z(N) Bubbles and Their Descendants in Hot QCD: Alive and Bubblingp. 490
Braaten-Pisarski Action, Disoriented Chiral Condensate, and Chiral Symmetry Non-Restorationp. 503
Thermo Field Dynamics for Quantum Fields with Continuous Mass Spectrum Applied to Nuclear Physicsp. 509
Nuclear Structure at Finite Temperaturep. 519
The Nuclear Many-Body Problem at Finite Temperaturep. 529
List of Participantsp. 535
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