Chiral reductions in the Salam-Sezgin model

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2012)098zbMATH Open1309.81236arXiv1108.6011OpenAlexW3101681882MaRDI QIDQ2340583FDOQ2340583

Authors: Tom G. Pugh, Christopher N. Pope, Kellogg Stelle 

Publication date: 20 April 2015

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Reductions from six to four spacetime dimensions are considered for a class of supergravity models based on the six-dimensional Salam-Sezgin model, which is a chiral theory with a gauged U(1) R-symmetry and a positive scalar-field potential. Reduction on a sphere and monopole background of such models naturally yields four-dimensional theories without a cosmological constant. The question of chirality preservation in such a reduction has been a topic of debate. In this article, it is shown that the possibilities of dimensional reduction bifurcate into two separate consistent dimensional-reduction schemes. One of these retains the massless SU(2) vector gauge triplet arising from the sphere's isometries, but it produces a non-chiral four-dimensional theory. The other consistent scheme sets to zero the SU(2) gauge fields, but retains the gauged U(1) from six dimensions and preserves chirality although the U(1) is spontaneously broken. Extensions of the Salam-Sezgin model to include larger gauge symmetries produce genuinely chiral models with unbroken gauge symmetries.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.6011

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zbMATH Keywords

chiral Lagrangiansflux compactificationssupergravity modelscompactification and string models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) 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) Supergravity (83E50)

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