A Dual Path Integral Representation for Finite Temperature Quantum Field Theory
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DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.77.105030arXiv0803.1667MaRDI QIDQ6208728FDOQ6208728
I. Roditi, A. P. C. Malbouisson, Cesar Daniel Fosco, C. Ccapa Ttira
Publication date: 11 March 2008
Abstract: We impose the periodicity conditions corresponding to the Matsubara formalism for Thermal Field Theory as constraints in the imaginary time path integral. These constraints are introduced by means of time-independent auxiliary fields which, by integration of the original variables, become dynamical fields in the resulting `dual' representation for the theory. This alternative representation has the appealing property of involving fields which live in one dimension less than the original ones, with a quantum partition function whose integration measure is identical to the one of its classical counterpart, albeit with a different (spatially nonlocal) action.
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