Symmetry breaking for bosonic systems on orbifolds

DOI10.1006/APHY.2002.6297MaRDI QIDQ1851256zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carla Biggio, Ferruccio Feruglio

Publication date 16 December 2002

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0207014

zbMATH Keywords

mass spectrumjumptwistfree scalar fieldsboundary conditions for bosonsextra spatial dimensiongauge vector bosonsorbifold fixed points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: We discuss a general class of boundary conditions for bosons living in an extra spatial dimension compactified on S^1/Z_2. Discontinuities for both fields and their first derivatives are allowed at the orbifold fixed points. We analyze examples with free scalar fields and interacting gauge vector bosons, deriving the mass spectrum, that depends on a combination of the twist and the jumps. We discuss how the same physical system can be characterized by different boundary conditions, related by local field redefinitions that turn a twist into a jump or vice-versa. When the description is in term of discontinuous fields, appropriate lagrangian terms should be localized at the orbifold fixed points.

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