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Simple Physical Approach to Thermal Cutting Rules

P V Landshoff

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9606426

Abstract

A first-principles derivation is given of the imaginary part of a Green's function in real-time thermal field theory. The analysis and its conclusions are simpler than in the usual circled-vertex formalism. The relationship to Cutkosky-like cutting rules is explained.

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