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Gauge corrections and FI-term in 5D KK theories

D. M. Ghilencea, S. Groot Nibbelink, H. P. Nilles

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0108184

Abstract

In the context of a five dimensional N=1 Kaluza Klein model compactified on S1/Z2 x Z2' we compute the one-loop gauge corrections to the self energy of the (zero-mode) scalar field. The result is quadratically divergent due to the appearance of a Fayet-Iliopoulos term.

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