Behavior of logarithmic branch cuts in the self-energy of gluons at finite temperature

Abstract

We give a simple argument for the cancellation of the log(-k^2) terms (k is the gluon momentum) between the zero-temperature and the temperature-dependent parts of the thermal self-energy.

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