Wilson lines and symmetry breaking on orbifolds

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00816-7zbMATH Open0999.81047arXivhep-th/0107245OpenAlexW3101722972WikidataQ59203934 ScholiaQ59203934MaRDI QIDQ701520FDOQ701520

Authors: Lawrence J. Hall, Hitoshi Murayama, Yasunori Nomura 

Publication date: 3 November 2002

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

Abstract: Gauge symmetry breaking by boundary conditions on a manifold is known to be equivalent to Wilson-line breaking through a background gauge field, and is therefore spontaneous. These equivalent pictures are related by a non-periodic gauge transformation. However, we find that boundary condition gauge symmetry breaking on orbifolds is explicit; there is no gauge where all the breaking can be attributed to a background gauge field. In the case of a five-dimensional SU(5) grand unified theory on S^1/Z_2, the vacuum with gauge symmetry broken to SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) and that with SU(5) preserved are completely disconnected: there is no physical process which causes tunneling between the two. This allows a certain localized explicit breaking of SU(5) on one of the orbifold fixed points in the theory with SU(5) breaking. Split multiplets on this fixed point are shown not to induce violations of unitarity in scattering amplitudes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0107245

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionsgauge symmetry breakingsplit multiplets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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