One-loop surface tensions of (supersymmetric) kink domain walls from dimensional regularization TeX Export

@article{citeulike:3733105, abstract = {We consider domain walls obtained by embedding the 1+1-dimensional \$\phi^4\$-kink in higher dimensions. We show that a suitably adapted dimensional regularization method avoids the intricacies found in other regularization schemes in both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric theories. This method allows us to calculate the one-loop quantum mass of kinks and surface tensions of kink domain walls in a very simple manner, yielding a compact d-dimensional formula which reproduces many of the previous results in the literature. Among the new results is the nontrivial one-loop correction to the surface tension of a 2+1 dimensional N=1 supersymmetric kink domain wall with chiral domain-wall fermions.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Rebhan, A. and van Nieuwenhuizen, P. and Wimmer, R.}, citeulike-article-id = {3733105}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203137}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0203137}, day = {26}, eprint = {hep-th/0203137}, keywords = {domain-wall, kinks, solitons, supersymmetry}, month = {Mar}, posted-at = {2008-12-01 16:46:34}, priority = {2}, title = {One-loop surface tensions of (supersymmetric) kink domain walls from dimensional regularization}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203137}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3733105 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3733105 N2 - We consider domain walls obtained by embedding the 1+1-dimensional $\phi^4$-kink in higher dimensions. We show that a suitably adapted dimensional regularization method avoids the intricacies found in other regularization schemes in both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric theories. This method allows us to calculate the one-loop quantum mass of kinks and surface tensions of kink domain walls in a very simple manner, yielding a compact d-dimensional formula which reproduces many of the previous results in the literature. Among the new results is the nontrivial one-loop correction to the surface tension of a 2+1 dimensional N=1 supersymmetric kink domain wall with chiral domain-wall fermions. TI - One-loop surface tensions of (supersymmetric) kink domain walls from dimensional regularization KW - domain-wall KW - kinks KW - solitons KW - supersymmetry AU - Rebhan, A AU - van Nieuwenhuizen, P AU - Wimmer, R PY - 2002/Mar/26/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203137 ER -