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Finite-temperature effects on asymptotically freeλΦ 4 theory

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The transition between the spontaneously broken phase and the asymmetric one inλΦ 4 field theory in four dimensions at finite temperature is reconsidered by following the recent suggestion that the theory could be not trivial and asymptotically free.

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Stivala, N.M. Finite-temperature effects on asymptotically freeλΦ 4 theory. Nuov Cim A 106, 777–791 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02771493

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