Hosotani breaking of E6 to a subgroup of rank five

DOI10.1063/1.528662zbMath0726.58059OpenAlexW2072563215MaRDI QIDQ3350358

Brett McInnes

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.528662

zbMATH Keywords

gauge fieldsgauge invariancesupersymmetrysymmetry breakingstring modelsSU(2) groupSU(3) groupHosotani breakingU(1) groupvacuum gauge configurations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40)

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Cites Work

• The internal symmetry group of a connection on a principal fiber bundle with applications to gauge field theories
• Group-theoretic aspects of the Hosotani mechanism