Supersymmetry from boundary conditions

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.01.004zbMATH Open1109.81362arXivhep-th/0411133OpenAlexW2075619461WikidataQ62398344 ScholiaQ62398344MaRDI QIDQ875751FDOQ875751

Luigi Pilo, Gero Von Gersdorff, A. Riotto, Mariano Quirós, Verónica Sanz

Publication date: 16 April 2007

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

Abstract: We study breaking and restoration of supersymmetry in five-dimensional theories by determining the mass spectrum of fermions from their equations of motion. Boundary conditions can be obtained from either the action principle by extremizing an appropriate boundary action (interval approach) or by assigning parities to the fields (orbifold approach). In the former, fields extend continuously from the bulk to the boundaries, while in the latter the presence of brane mass-terms cause fields to jump when one moves across the branes. We compare the two approaches and in particular we carefully compute the non-trivial jump profiles of the wavefunctions in the orbifold picture for very general brane mass terms. We also include the effect of the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism in either approach and point out that for a suitable tuning of the boundary actions supersymmetry is present for arbitrary values of the Scherk-Schwarz parameter. As an application of the interval formalism we construct bulk and boundary actions for super Yang-Mills theory. Finally we extend our results to the warped Randall-Sundrum background.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0411133

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25)

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