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Towards the Theory of Cosmological Phase Transitions

arXiv:hep-ph/9203203 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.46.550

Abstract

We discuss recent progress (and controversies) in the theory of finite temperature phase transitions. This includes the structure of the effective potential at a finite temperature, the infrared problem in quantum statistics of gauge fields, the theory of formation of critical and subcritical bubbles and the theory of bubble wall propagation.

50 pp

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