2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/53829The generating functional for hard thermal loops in QCD is important in setting up a resummed perturbation theory. I review how this functional is related to the eikonal for a Chern-Simons theory, and using an auxiliary field, to the gauged WZNW-action. The induced current due to hard thermal loops, properly incorporating damping effects, is also briefly discussed. (Invited talk at the Third Worshop on Thermal Field Theories, Banff, Canada, August, 1993.)8 pages, October, 1993. (Plain TeX)High Energy Physics - TheoryHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext