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Title: Thermal self-energies at zero momentum

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D
 [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, University of Puerto Rico, P.O. Box 23343, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 00931 (United States)
  2. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 560034 (India)

In general the zero momentum limit of thermal self-energies calculated in perturbation theory depends on the order in which the time and the space components of the momentum are taken to zero. We show that this is an artifact of the perturbative calculation, and in fact the nonanalyticity of the one-loop self-energy disappears when it is calculated with improved vertices and/or improved propagators that incorporate the imaginary part of the self-energy.

OSTI ID:
44792
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D, Vol. 51, Issue 9; Other Information: PBD: 1 May 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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