DIFFICULTIES IN FORMULATING AN IMAGINARY-TIME FORMALISM OF TEMPORAL AXIAL GAUGE AT, FINITE-T

Following the successful construction of the finite T real-time formal ism in temporal axial gauge, we attempt to further study the equivalen t new imaginary-time formalism of James and Landshoff based on the sam e Hamiltonian approach in the hope that it will provide the answer to Debye screening in QCD. It turns out that, unlike in the real-time cas e, energy conservation does not hold because of the unusual representa tion of the longitudinal field forced upon by the Hamiltonian formulat ion.