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A Simple Derivation of the Hard Thermal Loop Effective Action

Per Elmfors, T. H. Hansson, Ismail Zahed

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9809013

Abstract

We use the background field method along with a special gauge condition, to derive the hard thermal loop effective action in a simple manner. The new point in the paper is to relate the effective action explicitly to the S-matrix from the onset.

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