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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.

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@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