Two-particle irreducible effective actions versus resummation: Analytic properties and self-consistency

Approximations based on two-particle irreducible (2PI) effective actions (also known as Φ-derivable, Cornwall–Jackiw–Tomboulis or Luttinger–Ward functionals depending on context) have been widely used in condensed matter and non-equilibrium quantum/statistical field theory because this formalism giv...

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Main Authors: Michael Brown, Ian Whittingham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-11-01
Series:Nuclear Physics B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321315003405