Kinetic theories with color and spin from amplitudes

Abstract

We extend a previously developed approach to relate thermal currents in the high temperature regime and classical limits of amplitudes. We consider the biadjoint scalar theory, which has the basic structure of a cubic theory and which is related to QCD and gravity through the double copy. In addition, we consider a generalization of scalar QED to model classical spin, where massive scalars are complex higher-spin fields. We derive Vlasov-type kinetic equations for biadjoint scalars and study their iterative solutions, while for QED we use well-known kinetic equations. In both cases we find consistency between these solutions and the amplitudelike approach.