An example of Kaluza-Klein-like theory with boundary conditions, which lead to massless and mass protected spinors chirally coupled to gauge fields

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.12.065MaRDI QIDQ454011zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Norma Susana Mankoč Borštnik, Holger Bech Nielsen

Publication date 30 September 2012

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/hep-th/0509101

zbMATH Keywords

chirally coupled massless spinorsKaluza-Klein-like theories with boundaries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: The genuine Kaluza-Klein-like theories (with no fields in addition to gravity) have difficulties with the existence of massless spinors after the ompactification of some of dimensions of spacecite{witten}. We assume a $M^{(1+3)}imes$ a flat finite disk in $(1+5)$-dimensional space, with the boundary allowing spinors of only one handedness. Massless spinors then chirally couple to the corresponding background gauge gravitational field, which solves equations of motion for a free field, linear in the Riemann curvature.

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