Spacelike thermal correlators are almost time-independent

Abstract

We show that, in relativistic field theories, the thermal correlation function of N bosonic operators <O_1(x_1,t_1) O_2(x_2,t_2) .. O_N(x_N,t_N)> at sufficiently spacelike-separated points shows exponentially weak dependence on the time variables t_1,...,t_N, when the space separations are held fixed. For classical thermal field theory, the time dependence vanishes when all points are spacelike separated

7 pages, 2 figures. Slight rewriting of conclusions

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