Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-10-10
Phys.Lett. B472 (2000) 67-76
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
15 pages, revtex; misprints corrected, clarifying remarks added (to appear in Phys. Lett. B)
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01401-X
We point out that in (open) string compactifications with non-zero NS-NS B-field we can have large Kaluza-Klein thresholds even in the small volume limit. In this limit the corresponding gauge theory description is in terms of a compactification on a non-commutative space (e.g., a torus or an orbifold thereof). Based on this observation we discuss a brane world scenario of non-commutative unification via Kaluza-Klein thresholds. In this scenario, the unification scale can be lowered down to the TeV-range, yet the corresponding compactification radii are smaller than the string length. We discuss a potential application of this scenario in the context of obtaining mixing between different chiral generations which is not exponentially suppressed - as we point out, such mixing is expected to be exponentially suppressed in certain setups with large volume compactifications. We also point out that T-duality is broken by certain non-perturbative twisted open string sectors which are supposed to give rise to chiral generations, so that in the case of a small volume compactification with a rational B-field we cannot T-dualize to a large volume description. In this sense, the corresponding field theoretic picture of unification via Kaluza-Klein thresholds in this setup is best described in the non-commutative language.
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