Isolating vacuum amplitudes in quantum field calculations at finite temperature

Details Isolating vacuum amplitudes in quantum field calculations at finite temperature Isolating vacuum amplitudes in quantum field calculations at finite temperature

2004-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0406109v1

Nucl.Phys. A764 (2006) 393-422

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

37 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

In calculating Feynman diagrams at finite temperature, it is sometimes convenient to isolate subdiagrams which do not depend explicitly on the temperature. We show that, in the imaginary time formalism, such a separation can be achieved easily by exploiting a simple method, due to M. Gaudin, to perform the sum over the Matsubara frequencies. In order to manipulate freely contributions which may be individually singular, a regularization has to be introduced. We show that, in some cases, it is possible to choose this regularization in such a way that the isolated subdiagrams can be identified with analytical continuations of vacuum n-point functions. As an aside illustration of Gaudin's method, we use it to prove the main part of a recent conjecture concerning the relation which exists in the imaginary time formalism between the expressions of a Feynman diagram at zero and finite temperature.

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