Fixed points and vacuum energy of dynamically broken gauge theories
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We show that if a gauge theory with dynamical symmetry breaking has non-trivial fixed points, they will correspond to extrema of the vacuum energy. This relationship provides a different method to determine fixed points.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9709296,
title = {Fixed points and vacuum energy of dynamically broken gauge theories},
author = {A. A. Natale and P. S. Rodrigues da Silva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9709296},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, uuencoded latex file, 3 figures, uses epsf and epsfig. Submitted to Mod. Phys. Lett. A