Semiclassical kinetic equations for gluons allowing for spin

A system of transport quantum equations is obtained on the basis of the gauge-covariant Wigner operator for the SU(N) gauge field. The semiclassical limit of the equations is derived. After exclusion of the mean field, the kinetic equations describing nonvirtual (thermal) gluons accounting for spin are separated from the system in the collisionless approximation. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 111, No. 2, pp. 263–278, May, 1997.