ONE LOOP FLUX BREAKING BY MASSIVE FIELDS

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BURGESS, M
TOMS, DJ
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[1] Department of Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)92009-8
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P1 [天文学];
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We consider the effect of fields with non zero masses on flux breaking to first order in perturbation theory. It is found that non zero mass leads to greater stability of the unbroken symmetry configurations, for adjoint class fermions, and never assists the symmetry breaking mechanism. We also show that, in the massive case, there is a critical length associated with the compact dimension, above which stability is assured. © 1990.
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