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Supersymmetric Theories on a Non Simply Connected Space-Time

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

We study the Wess-Zumino theory on R3×S1{\bf R}^3 \times S^1 where a spatial coordinate is compactified. We show that when the bosonic and fermionic fields satisfy the same boundary condition, the theory does not develop a vacuum energy or tadpoles. We work out the two point functions at one loop and show that their forms are consistent with the nonrenormalization theorem. However, the two point functions are nonanalytic and we discuss the structure of this nonanalyticity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9502027,
  title  = {Supersymmetric Theories on a Non Simply Connected Space-Time},
  author = {Ashok Das and Marcelo Hott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9502027},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, TEX file, figures upon request from authors