Finite temperature formalism for nonabelian gauge theories in the physical phase space

Abstract

We establish a new framework of finite temperature field theory for Yang-Mills theories in the physical phase space eliminating all unphysical degrees of freedoms. Relating our method to the imaginary time formalism of James and Landshoff in temporal axial gauge, we calculate the two-loop pressure and provide a systematic and unique method to construct the additional vertices encountered in their approach.

18 pages, 5 postscript figures, uses revtex, epsf

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