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Worldlines on Orbifolds and the Fayet-Iliopoulos Term

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-09-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We adapt ``string-inspired'' worldline techniques to one-loop calculations on orbifolds, in particular on the S1/Z2S^1/Z_2 orbifold. Our method also allows for the treatment of brane-localized terms, or bulk-brane couplings. For demonstration, we reproduce the well-known result for the one-loop induced Fayet-Iliopoulos term in rigidly supersymmetric Abelian gauge theory, and generalize it to the case where soft supersymmetry breaking mass terms for the bulk scalar fields are present on the branes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0412284,
  title  = {Worldlines on Orbifolds and the Fayet-Iliopoulos Term},
  author = {Felix Bruemmer and Michael G. Schmidt and Zurab Tavartkiladze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0412284},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Typos corrected, clarifying remarks added