Grand unification in the projective plane

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2004/01/047zbMATH Open1243.81226arXivhep-ph/0309313OpenAlexW2085096276MaRDI QIDQ438276FDOQ438276

Authors: Arthur Hebecker 

Publication date: 30 July 2012

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

Abstract: A 6-dimensional grand unified theory with the compact space having the topology of a real projective plane, i.e., a 2-sphere with opposite points identified, is considered. The space is locally flat except for two conical singularities where the curvature is concentrated. One supersymmetry is preserved in the effective 4d theory. The unified gauge symmetry, for example SU(5), is broken only by the non-trivial global topology. In contrast to the Hosotani mechanism, no adjoint Wilson-line modulus associated with this breaking appears. Since, locally, SU(5) remains a good symmetry everywhere, no UV-sensitive threshold corrections arise and SU(5)-violating local operators are forbidden. Doublet-triplet splitting can be addressed in the context of a 6d N=2 super Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(6). If this symmetry is first broken to SU(5) at a fixed point and then further reduced to the standard model group in the above non-local way, the two light Higgs doublets of the MSSM are predicted by the group-theoretical and geometrical structure of the model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0309313

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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