Classical Boltzmann equation and high-temperature QED
arXiv:1501.00469 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.91.045023
Abstract
The equivalence between thermal field theory and the Boltzmann transport equation is investigated at higher orders in the context of quantum electrodynamics. We compare the contributions obtained from the collisionless transport equation with the high temperature limit of the one-loop thermal Green's function. Our approach employs the representation of the thermal Green's functions in terms of forward scattering amplitudes. The general structure of these amplitudes clearly indicates that the physics described by the leading high temperature limit of quantum electrodynamics can be obtained from the Boltzmann transport equation. We also present some explicit examples of this interesting equivalence.
arXiv commentThis version contains a minor modification in the sentence after Eq. (2.15) as well as before Eq. (3.13) making the results more general
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