2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/47297We examine the quantum corrections to the static energy for Higgs winding configurations. We evaluate the effective action for such configurations in Weinberg-Salam theory without U(1)-gauge fields or fermions. For a configuration whose size is much smaller than the inverse W-mass, quantum contributions to the energy are comparable to the classical energy. Moreover, it is insufficient to consider only one-loop corrections, even as hbar --> 0. Indeed, all loop orders contribute equally to the static energy. Nevertheless, quantum fluctuations do not stabilize winding configurations.6 pages REVTEX, no figures. To be published in the proceedings of A CRM-Fields-CAP Summer Workshop in Theoretical Physics: Solitons, Properties, Dynamics, Interactions and Applications, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 20-26 Jul 1997High Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext