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We derive Feynman rules for evaluating the real-time Green's functions of a scalar field theory in a Robertson-Walker universe under the circumstance that at some initial time t₀ the system was in thermal equilibrium with density matrix exp[-{β}H(t₀)], where H(t₀) is the Hamiltonian at time t₀.
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Semenoff et al. (1985) studied this question.
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