Abstract
Several distinct perturbative approaches exist to describe the equation of state of QCD in the deconfined phase: dimensional reduction works for temperatures larger than the screening mass, otherwise one has to apply HDL/HTL resummation schemes at small temperatures or resort to the result by Freedman and McLerran at zero temperature. We present a new method that unifies these approaches in a manifestly four-dimensional calculation. We work out our new method for the pressure up to and including order g 4 and verify that it agrees to the previous approaches in their respective ranges of validity.
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