Consistent HTL resummation of the thermodynamical potential
arXiv:hep-ph/9910451
Abstract
The thermodynamical potential of relativistic gauge theories can be consistently resummed in terms of HTL propagators, which is, without being restricted to it, exemplified for the case of hot QED. The nonperturbative resummation is gauge independent, free of thermal divergences and, in the weak-coupling limit, compatible with the leading order perturbative result.
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