Gauge-Higgs models from nilmanifolds

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2022.137097MaRDI QIDQ2140688zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aldo Deandrea, Fabio Dogliotti, Dimitrios Tsimpis

Publication date 23 May 2022

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01151

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Compactification of analytic spaces (32J05) Dimensional compactification in quantum field theory (81T33)

Abstract: We consider the compactification of a Yang-Mills theory on a three-dimensional nilmanifold. The compactification generates a Yang-Mills theory in four space-time dimensions, coupled to a specific scalar sector. The compactification geometry gives rise to masses for the zero-modes, proportional to the twist parameter of the nilmanifold. We study the simple example of an SU (3) model broken by a non-trivial vacuum of the scalar potential which generates three mass scales, two being at tree level, and the third one at loop level. We point out the relevance of general twisted geometries for model building and in particular for gauge-Higgs type models, as the twist generates tree-level mass hierarchies useful for grand unification and for the Higgs sector in electroweak symmetry breaking.

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