The Polyakov loop and the heat kernel expansion at finite temperature

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00699-3MaRDI QIDQ1810366zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 3 June 2003

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0212237

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryflat spacetimeimaginary time formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

Abstract: The lower order terms of the heat kernel expansion at coincident points are computed in the context of finite temperature quantum field theory for flat space-time and in the presence of general gauge and scalar fields which may be non Abelian and non stationary. The computation is carried out in the imaginary time formalism and the result is fully consistent with invariance under topologically large and small gauge transformations. The Polyakov loop is shown to play a fundamental role.

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