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Title

Evaluating Sums Over the Matsubara Frequencies
Author

A. Nieto
Journal / Anthology

arXiv:hep-ph/9311210
Year: 1993
Description

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 analyzed here. I present a fast and reliable 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.
Subject

*Science > Physics > Quantum Physics
URL

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9311210