Maximal Locality and Predictive Power in Higher-Dimensional, Compactified Field Theories

DOI10.1143/PTP.111.413MaRDI QIDQ4822060zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Masanori Nunami, Jisuke Kubo

Publication date 25 October 2004

Published in Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0309023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: To achieve a maximal locality in a trivial field theory, we maximize the ultraviolet cutoff of the theory by fine tuning the infrared values of the parameters. This optimization procedure is applied to the scalar theory in $D+1$ dimensions ($Dgeq4$) with one extra dimension compactified on a circle with radius $R$. The optimized, infrared values of the parameters are then compared with the corresponding ones of the uncompactified theory in $D$ dimensions, which is assumed to be the low-energy effective theory. We find that these values approximately agree with each other, as long as $R^{-1}gsimsM$ is satisfied, where $ssimeq10,50,50,100$ for $D=4,5,6,7$, and $M$ is a typical scale of the $D$-dimensional theory. This result supports the previously made claim that the maximization of the ultraviolet cutoff in an nonrenormalizable field theory can give the theory more predictive power.

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