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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Space-time of an Arbitrary Dimension

Je-An Gu, W-Y. P. Hwang

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0102179

Abstract

We propose a new scenario to implement spontaneous symmetry breaking in the space-time of an arbitrary dimension (D>2) by introducing the non-minimal coupling between the scalar field and the gravity. In this scenario, the usage of the familiar lambda Phi 4 term, which is non-renormalizable for D >= 5, can be avoided altogether.

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