Ma. Vaneijck, ONE-LOOP CALCULATION OF THE BACKGROUND FIELD QUANTUM-CHROMODYNAMIC BETA-FUNCTION, Canadian journal of physics, 71(5-6), 1993, pp. 237-240
We present a one-loop calculation of a gauge invariant quantum-chromod
ynamic beta function at finite temperature with rules coming from the
background field method in the Landau gauge and from the retarded and
advanced formulation of finite-temperature field theory.