Bounds on R-parity violating couplings at the weak scale and at the GUT scale -: art. no. 075014.

We analyze bounds on trilinear R-parity violating couplings at the unification scale by renormalizing the weak scare bounds. We derive unification scale upper bounds upon the couplings which are broadly independent of the fermion mass texture assumed. The R-parity violating couplings are factors of 2-5 more severely bounded at the unification scale than at the electroweak scale. In the presence of quark mixing, a few of the bounds are orders of magnitude stronger than their weak scale counterparts due to new R-parity violating operators being induced in the renormalization between high and low scales. These induced bounds are fermion mass texture dependent. New bounds upon the weak scale couplings are obtained by the requirement of perturbativity between the weak and unification scales. A comprehensive set of the latest limits is included. [S0556-2821(99)04819-5].