Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10722305 | Physics Letters B | 2012 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
We compute the chiral symmetries of the Lagrangian for confining “vector-like” gauge theories with massless fermions in d-dimensional Minkowski space and, under a few reasonable assumptions, determine the form of the quadratic fermion condensates which arise through spontaneous breaking of these symmetries. We find that for each type (complex, real, or pseudoreal) of representation of the gauge group carried by the fermions, the chiral symmetries of the Lagrangian, as well as the residual symmetries after dynamical breaking, exactly follow the pattern of Bott periodicity as the dimension changes. The consequences of this for the topological features of the low-energy effective theory are considered.
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Authors
Richard DeJonghe, Kimberly Frey, Tom Imbo,