HOT SCALAR ELECTRODYNAMICS AS A TOY MODEL FOR HOT QCD

Hot scalar electrodynamics is adopted as a toy model for a hot gluon plasma to display some aspects of the compulsory resummation of hard thermal loops when next-to-leading order quantities at soft momentum scales are to be calculated. [Talk given by A.K.R. at a one-day meeting dedicated to the memory of Tanguy ALTHERR, held on November 4, 1994 at CERN, Geneva. To appear in a Gedenkschrift published by World Scientific.]Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX, uses epsf.sty, 1 uuencoded postscript figur