Vacuum instability for model field theories

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Abstract
The perturbative vacuum for models in which fermions are coupled to scalar bosons and contain no derivative coupling for the scalar is shown to be unstable at the one-loop level. The instability is due to fluctuations at a sufficiently short-distance scale and is caused by the fermion loop contributions. Possible instabilities in models, which couple fermions to vector bosons only, are also discussed.