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Imaginary time formalism and the KMS relation, finite temperature Green functions, and Matsubara frequencies. Non-equilibrium Green functions, off-shell effects in the kinetic theory. Stochastic and chaotic quantization.
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Biró, T.S. (2011). The Temperature in Quantum Field Theory. In: Is There a Temperature?. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 171. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8041-0_8
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