Obtaining a closed-form representation for the dual bosonic thermal Green function by using methods of integration on the complex plane

Abstract

We derive an exact closed-form representation for the Euclidean thermal Green function of the two-dimensional (2D) free massless scalar field in coordinate space. This can be interpreted as the real part of a complex analytic function of a variable that conformally maps the infinite strip $-\infty <x<\infty$ ($0<\tau <\beta$) of the $z=x+i\tau$ ($\tau$: imaginary time) plane into the upper-half-plane. Use of the Cauchy-Riemann conditions, then allows us to identify the dual thermal Green function as the imaginary part of that function.

To appear in Rev. Bras. Ens. Fis., 7 pages