We evaluate the quark-photon vertex non-perturbatively taking into account
the gluon condensate at finite temperature. This vertex is related to the p
reviously derived effective quark propagator by a QED like Ward-Tukahashi i
dentity. The importance of the effective vertex for the dilepton production
rate from a quark-gluon plasma is stressed. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier
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