How to get masses from Kaluza-Klein theory

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(89)90019-3MaRDI QIDQ910033zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yvan Kerbrat, Helene Kerbrat-Lunc, J. Śniatycki

Publication date 1989

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0393-0440(89)90019-3

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein type field equationHiggs fieldinvariant Lorentzian metricprincipal fibre bundlesymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Review text

Starting off with a principal fibre bundle P equipped with an invariant Lorentzian metric g, the authors analyze symmetry breaking by considering the vertical part of the metric as a Higgs field, the values of which are constrained to an orbit of the symmetry group. This results in a splitting of the gauge field into a residual Yang-Mills field and massive vector bosons. Furthermore, an Einstein type field equation for the metric g and its splitting into ordinary Einstein equation, Yang-Mills equation, and Klein-Gordon type equation, is discussed. The general theory is illustrated by an example where the symmetry group Spin(4) is broken to U(1).

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