Published July 1, 2002
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The strength of small-instanton amplitudes in gauge theories with compact extra dimensions
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- Poppitz, Erich
- Shirman, Yuri
Abstract
We study instanton effects in theories with compact extra dimensions. We perform an instanton calculation in a 5d theory on a circle of radius R, with gauge, scalar, and fermion fields in the bulk of the extra dimension. We show that, depending on the matter content, instantons of size ρ << R can dominate the amplitude. Using deconstruction as an ultraviolet definition of the theory allows us to show, in a controlled approximation, that for a small number of bulk fermions, the amplitude for small size instantons exponentially grows as eScript O(1)R/ρ.
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© SISSA 2002 Received 17 April 2002, accepted for publication 17 July 2002, Published 29 July 2002 It is a pleasure to thank Csaba Cs¶aki, Josh Erlich, and Yael Shadmi for collaboration at the early stages of this project and for many useful discussions. E.P. thanks Nima Arkani-Hamed, Andy Cohen, and Sergei Khlebnikov for discussions and insightful remarks. Y.S. is also grateful to Markus Luty, Sandip Pakvasa, and Xerxes Tata for useful discussions. Y.S. is supported in part by DOE grant DE-FG03-92-ER-40701.Files
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