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Prog. Theor. Phys. Supplement No.86 (1986) pp. 185-191
Breaking the Vacuum Degeneracy of the Superstring
Burt A. Ovrut
Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
(Received January 29, 1986)
Abstract:
We present a general method for calculating the energy splitting of gauge field vacua to the one-loop level on compact, multiply connected manifolds. Two explicit examples are given in which non-zero gauge vacua have the lowest energy, and the gauge group is spontaneously broken.
URL :
http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTPS/86/185/
DOI : 10.1143/PTPS.86.185
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