Three Approaches to Classical Thermal Field Theory

Abstract

In this paper we study three different functional approaches to classical thermal field theory, which turn out to be the classical counterparts of three well-known different formulations of quantum thermal field theory: the Closed-Time Path (CTP) formalism, the Thermofield Dynamics (TFD) and the Matsubara approach.

56 pages, 3 figures, uses FeynMP

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