On anomalies in orbifold theories

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02631-XzbMATH Open0998.81060arXivhep-th/0202144OpenAlexW2037871664MaRDI QIDQ700823FDOQ700823

Authors: Luigi Pilo, A. Riotto 

Publication date: 9 October 2002

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

Abstract: We study the issue of gauge invariance in five-dimensional theories compactified on an orbifold $S^1/(mathbb{Z}_{2}imesmathbb{Z}^{p}rim{e}_2)$ in the presence of an external U(1) gauge field. From the four-dimensional point We study the issue of gauge invariance in five-dimensional theories compactified on an orbifold $S^1/(mathbb{Z}_{2}imesmathbb{Z}^{p}rim{e}_2)$ in the presence of an external U(1) gauge field. From the four-dimensional point of view the theory contains a tower of Kaluza-Klein Dirac fermions with chiral couplings and it looks anomalous at the quantum level. We show that this ``anomaly is cancelled by a topological Chern-Simons term which is generated in the effective action when the gauge theory is regularized introducing an Pauli-Villars fermion with an odd mass term. In the presence of a classical background gauge field, the fermionic current acquires a vacuum expectation value, thus generating the suitable Chern-Simons term and a gauge invariant theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202144

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge invariancecompactified five-dimensional theoriesKaluza-Klein Dirac fermion tower

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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