The Polyakov loop and the heat kernel expansion at finite temperature

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00699-3zbMath1030.81012arXivhep-th/0212237MaRDI QIDQ1810366

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 theory; flat spacetime; imaginary time formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

81T15: Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory

81T08: Constructive quantum field theory

82B30: Statistical thermodynamics

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