Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-10-08
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
LaTeX, 17 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
The spectrum of collective fermionic excitations in a finite temperature QED_{3+1} is studied in different regimes. It is shown that within the standard perturbation approach the one-loop dispersion equation, besides the ordinary one-particle excitation, has four new solutions. The additional excitations are gauge-dependent and two of them have nonphysical signs of residues in the propagator poles. The temperature evolution of the solutions is investigated and it is shown that the use of effective propagators leaves no more than one additional mode which becomes propagating at $T \bolpor 10M$, when the gauge invariance is restored. The other three modes, including those with nonphysical residues in the propagator poles, are always strongly damped, thus the thermal effects do not produce pathologies in QED_{3+1}.
Tyutin I. V.
Zeitlin Vadim
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