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The effective potential of composite fermions in quantum electrodynamics in curved spacetime is computed in the approximation linear in curvature. In the same approximation, the Schwinger-Dyson equations are obtained, and an exact solution which does not break chiral symmetry is found.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 96–101, September, 1990.
The authors thank I. L. Bukhbinder and V. P. Gusykin for useful discussions.
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Odintsov, S.D., Shil'nov, Y.I. Effective potential of composite fermionic fields in quantum electrodynamics in curved spacetime. Soviet Physics Journal 33, 806–810 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00894909
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