2002/09/04 by Van Sérgio Alves, V. S. Alves, Ashok Das +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.66.125008
published as Phys.Rev.D66:125008,2002 · 11 pages, 4 figures, Revtex4
arxiv created 2002/09/04 · openalex publication_date 2002/12/19 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study the question of generalizing light-front field theories to finite temperature. We show that the naive generalization has serious problems and we identify the source of the difficulty. We provide a proper generalization of these theories to finite temperature based on a relativistic description of thermal field theories, both in the real and the imaginary time formalisms. Various issues associated with scalar and fermion theories, such as nonanalyticity of self-energy, tensor decomposition are discussed in detail.