Boundary Conditions as Mass Generation Mechanism for Real Scalar Fields
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We consider the effects of homogeneous Dirichlet's boundary conditions on two infinite parallel plane surfaces separated by a small distance {\it a}. We find that although spontaneous symmetry breaking does not occur for the theory of a massless, quartically self-interacting real scalar field, the theory becomes a theory of a massive scalar field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0108019,
title = {Boundary Conditions as Mass Generation Mechanism for Real Scalar Fields},
author = {Jose Alexandre Nogueira and Pedro Leite Barbieri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0108019},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages; added remarks for section 3, references removed and others added, second term of Eq.(15) changed