Boundary conditions as mass generation mechanism for real scalar fields

AUTOR(ES)

Nogueira, José Alexandre, Barbieri, Pedro Leite

FONTE

Brazilian Journal of Physics

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2002-09

RESUMO

We consider the effects of homogeneous Dirichlet's boundary conditions on two infinite parallel plane surfaces separated by some small distance a. We find that although spontaneous symmetry breaking does not occur for the theory of a massless, quartically self-interacting real scalar field, the theory becomes a theory of a massive scalar field.

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