High-temperature QCD and the classical Boltzmann equation in curved spacetime Original Research Article

It has been shown that the high-temperature limit of perturbative thermal QCD is easily obtained from the Boltzmann transport equation for “classical” coloured particles [P.F. Kelly et al., Phys. Rev. D 50 (1994) 4209]. We generalize this treatment to curved space-time. We are thus able to construct the effective stress-energy tensor. We give a construction for an effective action. As an example of the convenience of the Boltzmann method, we derive the high-temperature 3-graviton function. We discuss the static case.