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Most-attractive-channel study for bulk and brane fermions in warped space

The idea of the self-breaking of the standard model gauge symmetry is applied to a gauge theory in a warped space. We systematically examine the gauge couplings of bulk and brane fermions. The constraint on the masses of bulk fermions is found under the conditions that the ordinary four-dimensional massless gluon is not condensed and that color-triplet scalar bound states are not formed. For bulk fermions with zero modes for the left- and right-handed components, the mass parameters are required to be at least $c\simg 1/2$ and $c\siml -1/2$, respectively. Then possible vacuum expectation values arise only from weak-doublet scalar bound states which trigger electroweak symmetry breaking.