Obtaining a closed-form representation for the dual bosonic thermal Green function by using methods of integration on the complex plane

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Abstract

We derive an exact closed-form representation for the Euclidean thermal Green function of the two-dimensional (2D) free massless scalar field in coordinate space. This can be interpreted as the real part of a complex analytic function of a variable that conformally maps the infinite strip −∞<x<∞-\infty<x<\infty (0<τ<β0<τ<β) of the z=x+iτz=x+iτ (ττ: imaginary time) plane into the upper-half-plane. Use of the Cauchy-Riemann conditions, then allows us to identify the dual thermal Green function as the imaginary part of that function.

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