Mass-Shell Behavior of Electron Propagator at Low Temperature

Abstract

At T=0 the full electron propagator is known to have an infrared anomalous dimension and thus a branch point at $P^2=m^2$ rather than a pole. An explicit calculation shows that if $0<eT\ll m$ the retarded self-energy is analytic in the vicinity of $P^2\approx m^2$, which includes the thermal mass-shell. The low-temperature propagator has a simple pole. Only when T=0 is there a branch point at the mass-shell.

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