SCHWINGER α-PARAMETRIC REPRESENTATION OF FINITE TEMPERATURE FIELD THEORIES: RENORMALIZATION

We present the extension of the zero temperature Schwinger α-representation to the finite temperature scalar field theories. We give, in a compact form, the α-integrand of Feynman amplitudes of these theories. Using this representation, we analyze short-range divergences, and recover in a simple way the known result that the counterterms are temperature-independent.