Splitting the superstring vacuum degeneracy
Abstract
A general method is presented for calculating the energy splitting of gaugefield vacua to the one-loop level on compact, multiply-connected manifolds. Two explicit examples are given in which non-zero gauge vacua have the lowest energy, and the gauge group is spontaneously broken.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- June 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0370-2693(86)91130-5
- Bibcode:
- 1986PhLB..174...63E