Abstract
We provide a small C++ library with Mathematica and Python interfaces for computing thermal functions, defined which appear in finite-temperature quantum field theory and play a role in phase-transitions in the early Universe, including baryogenesis, electroweak symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism. The code is available from https://github.com/andrewfowlie/thermal_funcs.Program title: thermal_funcsProgram Files doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/5nzrr2jjpd.1 Licensing provisions: BSD 3-ClauseProgramming language: C++, C interface to Mathematica and SWIG interface to PythonNature of problem: Thermal functions appear in finite-temperature quantum field theory and influence phase transitions in the early Universe. They have no closed-form solution. Studying phase transitions requires repeated evaluations of, inter alia, thermal functions. We provide several fast and accurate methods, and first and second derivatives.Solution method: We implement numerical quadrature, a Bessel function representation, asymptotic solutions expressed in terms of zeta functions and polylogarithms, and approximations and limits.
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