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Hard Thermal Loops in the n-Dimensional phi3 Theory
We derive a closed-form result for the leading thermal contributions which
appear in the n-dimensional phi3 theory at high temperature. These
contributions become local only in the long wavelength and in the static
limits, being given by different expressions in these two limits.Comment: 3 pages, one figure. To be published in the Brazilian Journal of
Physic
Hard thermal loops in static background fields
We discuss the high temperature behavior of retarded thermal loops in static
external fields. We employ an analytic continuation of the imaginary time
formalism and use a spectral representation of the thermal amplitudes. We show
that, to all orders, the leading contributions of static hard thermal loops can
be directly obtained by evaluating them at zero external energies and momenta.Comment: 5 pages, to be published in The European Physical Journal
Thermal instability in a gravity-like scalar theory
We study the question of stability of the ground state of a scalar theory
which is a generalization of the phi^3 theory and has some similarity to
gravity with a cosmological constant. We show that the ground state of the
theory at zero temperature becomes unstable above a certain critical
temperature, which is evaluated in closed form at high temperature.Comment: Four pages, two figures. Revised version published in the Physical
Review
Parity-violating electromagnetic interactions in QED_3 at finite temperature
We study the parity-breaking terms generated by the box diagram in 2+1
dimensional thermal QED. These lead, in the long wave limit, to a gauge
invariant extensive action which behaves as 1/T at high temperature. In
contrast, the effective action in the static limit involves leading
non-extensive terms proportional to 1/T^3 at high temperature, which violate
large gauge invariance. We derive a non-linear large gauge Ward identity, which
relates the leading static terms of different order in perturbation theory and
whose solution coincides with the all order effective action proposed earlier.Comment: 25 pages, 3 figure
Dispersion relations for the self-energy in non-commutative field theories
We study the IR/UV connection in non-commutative theory as well as
in non-commutative QED from the point of view of the dispersion relation for
the self-energy. We show that, although the imaginary part of the self-energy
is well behaved as the parameter of non-commutativity vanishes, the real part
becomes divergent as a consequence of the high energy behavior of the
dispersion integral. Some other interesting features that arise from this
analysis are also briefly discussed.Comment: 10 page
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