Domain walls and dimensional reduction
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Abstract: We study some properties of a dimensional reduction mechanism for fermions in an odd number D+1 of spacetime dimensions. A fermionic field is equipped with a mass term with domain wall like defects along one of the spacelike dimensions, which is moreover compactified. We show that there is a regime such that the only relevant degrees of freedom are massless fermionic fields in D dimensions. For any fixed gauge field configuration, the extra modes may be decoupled, since they can be made arbitrarily heavy. This decoupling combines the usual Kaluza-Klein one, due to the compactification, with a mass enhancement for the non-zero modes provided by the domain wall mechanism. We obtain quantitative results on the contribution of the massive modes in the cases D=2 and D=4.
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