Mass generation and symmetry breaking in Chern-Simons supergravity

2003/07/31 by Jorge Alfaro, Máximo Bañados, Maximo Banados
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.68.085013

published as Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 085013 · 5 pages, 1 eps figure. Corrected and added references

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Abstract

We argue that the quartic fermionic potential of five-dimensional Chern-Simons supergravity induces spontaneous symmetry breaking, in a phenomenon bearing a close connection with the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model.

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