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Gauge fields, fermions and mass gaps in 6D brane worlds. (English) Zbl 1117.83381

Summary: We study fluctuations about axisymmetric warped brane solutions in 6D minimal gauged supergravity. Much of our analysis is general and could be applied to other scenarios. We focus on bulk sectors that could give rise to Standard Model gauge fields and charged matter. We reduce the dynamics to Schrödinger type equations plus physical boundary conditions, and obtain exact solutions for the Kaluza-Klein wave functions and discrete mass spectra. The power-law warping, as opposed to exponential in 5D, means that zero mode wave functions can be peaked on negative tension branes, but only at the price of localizing the whole Kaluza - Klein tower there. However, remarkably, the codimension two defects allow the Kaluza-Klein mass gap to remain finite even in the infinite volume limit. In principle, not only gravity, but Standard Model fields could ‘feel’ the extent of large extra dimensions, and still be described by an effective 4D theory.

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83E30 String and superstring theories in gravitational theory
83E50 Supergravity
81V25 Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory
83E15 Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories
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