Compactification of gauge theories and the gauge invariance of massive modes

Details Compactification of gauge theories and the gauge invariance of massive modes Compactification of gauge theories and the gauge invariance of massive modes

2001-08-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0108171v2

Braz.J.Phys. 32 (2002) 227-231

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

5 pages, Revtex (multicol), minor corrections

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We study the gauge invariance of the massive modes in the compactification of gauge theories from D=5 to D=4. We deal with Abelian gauge theories of rank one and two, and with non-Abelian ones of rank one. We show that St\"uckelberg fields naturally appear in the compactification mechanism, contrarily to what usually occurs in literature where they are introduced by hand, as a trick, to render gauge invariance for massive theories. We also show that in the non-Abelian case they appear in a very different way when compared with their usual implementation in the non-Abelian Proca model.

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