Abstract Kant’s criticism of democracy has been traditionally defused with the consideration that aversion is not to per se, but direct democracy. However, what Kant says – ‘to prevent republican constitution from being confused democratic one, as commonly happens’ ( ZeF , 8: 351) appears count only against democracy, also conceptions closer ones we are accustomed to. By offering a new account ...

We analyze the matching conditions to determine the values that the O(p 4) coefficients of an Effective Chiral Lagrangian take in the Standard Model in the limit of a large Higgs mass, pointing out a number of subtleties that appear to have gone unnoticed previously. We apply the resulting Effective Chiral Lagrangian, including the leading two loop effects, to analyze the most recent electrowea...

Acknowledgments We thank Drs. T. Namikawa, Y. Matsuda, M. Mizutani, and Y. Atsumi for providing PNP roosters. Takashi Yoshimura is supported by the Funding Program for Next Generation World Leading Researchers (NEXT Program) initiated by the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) and Tsuyoshi Shimmura is supported for JSPS fellows 22-4942. WPIITbM is supported by the World Premier Int...

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