Boundary Conditions as Mass Generation Mechanism for Complex Scalar Fields

2003/11/18 by J. A. Nogueira, Nogueira, J. A., D. Possa +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0311165

8 pages

arxiv created 2003/11/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We consider the effects of homogeneous Dirichlet's boundary conditions in the scalar electrodynamics with self-interaction. We have found for a critical scale of the compactification length that symmetry is restored and scalar field develops mass and vector field does not.

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