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Lyapunov Exponent and Plasmon Damping Rate in Nonabelian Gauge Theories

T. S. Biro, C. Gong, B. Mueller

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9409392

Abstract

We explain why the maximal positive Lyapunov exponent of classical SU(N) gauge theory coincides with (twice) the damping rate of a plasmon at rest in the leading order of thermal gauge theory. [This is a substantially revised and expanded version of the manuscript.]

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