Motivated by cosmological applications like electroweak baryogenesis, we
develop a field theoretic approach to the computation of particle currents on a
space-time dependent and CP-violating Higgs background. We consider the
Standard Model model with two Higgs doublets and CP violation in the scalar
sector, and compute both fermionic and Higgs currents by means of an expansion
in the background fields. We discuss the gauge dependence of the results and
the renormalization of the current operators, showing that in the limit of
local equilibrium, no extra renormalization conditions are needed in order to
specify the system completely.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX file, uses epsf.sty. 4 figures available as a
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