Some aspects of color superconductivity: an introduction

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A pedagogical introduction to color superconductivity in the weak coupling limit is given.

• The focus is on the basic tools of thermal field theory necessary to compute observables of color superconductivity.
• The rich symmetry structure and symmetry breaking patterns are analyzed on the basis of the Anderson-Higgs mechanism.
• Some techniques can also be applied for computing neutrino processes in compact stars.