Evaluating Sums over the Matsubara Frequencies

Abstract

Perturbative calculations in field theory at finite temperature involve sums over the Matsubara frequencies. Besides the usual difficulties that appear in perturbative computations, these sums give rise to some new obstacles that are carefully analized here. I present a fast and realible recipe to work out sums over the Matsubara frequencies. As this algorithm leads to deal with very cumbersome algebraic expressions, it has been written for computers by using the symbolic manipulation program Mathematica. It is also shown this algorithm to be self-consistent when it is applied to more than one loop computations.

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