Cancellation of one-loop corrections to scalar masses in Yang-Mills theory with flux compactification

Abstract

Abstract We calculate one-loop corrections to the mass for the zero mode of scalar field in a six-dimensional Yang-Mills theory compactified on a torus with magnetic flux. It is shown that these corrections are exactly cancelled thanks to a shift symmetry under the translation in extra spaces. This result is expected from the fact that the zero mode of scalar field is a Nambu-Goldstone boson of the translational invariance in extra spaces.

Keywords

• Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
• Flux compactifications
• Effective Field Theories
• Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking