Fermion vacuum energies in brane world models

Mar, 2001
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 518 (2001) 153-156
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The fermion representations and boundary conditions in five-dimensional anti-de-Sitter space are described in detail. In each case the one loop effective action is calculated for massless fermions. The possibility of topological or Wilson loop symmetry breaking is discussed.
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  • 6 pages, no figures, one correction
  • 11.10.Kk
  • 11.15.Ex
  • 04.62+v
  • membrane model
  • dimension: 5
  • space-time: anti-de Sitter
  • boundary condition
  • fermion
  • effective action
  • vacuum state: energy state