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After motivating an interest in the shape of the topological charge density spectral function in hot Yang-Mills theories, we estimate it with the help of thermally averaged classical real-time simulations, for Nc = 2, 3. After subtracting a perturbative contribution at large frequencies, we observe a non-trivial shape at small frequencies (a dip rather than a peak), interpolating smoothly towards the sphaleron rate at zero frequency. Possible frequency scales making an appearance in this shape are discussed. Implications for warm axion inflation and reheating, and for imaginary-time lattice measurements of the strong sphaleron rate, are recapitulated.
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Laine, M., Niemi, L., Procacci, S. et al. Shape of the hot topological charge density spectral function. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 126 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2022)126
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