Thermalization and Lyapunov Exponents in the Yang-Mills-Higgs Theory
arXiv:hep-th/9608181 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.55.2464
Abstract
We investigate thermalization processes occurring at different time scales in the Yang-Mills-Higgs system at high temperatures. We determine the largest Lyapunov exponent associated with the gauge fields and verify its relation to the perturbatively calculated damping rate of a static gauge boson.
33 pages (revtex), 4 PS figures, submitted to PRD