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Perturbation theory and non-perturbative renormalization flow in scalar field theory at finite temperature

Jean-Paul Blaizot, Andreas Ipp, Ramon Mendez-Galain, Nicolas Wschebor

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0610004

Abstract

We use the non-perturbative renormalization group to clarify some features of perturbation theory in thermal field theory. For the specific case of the scalar field theory with O(N) symmetry, we solve the flow equations within the local potential approximation. This approximation reproduces the perturbative results for the screening mass and the pressure up to order g3, and starts to differ at order g4. The method allows a smooth extrapolation to the regime where the coupling is not small, very similar to that obtained from a simple self-consistent approximation.

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