Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2006-12-21
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
112 pages, 3 figures, based on the author's Ph.D. thesis
Scientific paper
In this thesis we investigate the effective actions for massive Kaluza-Klein states, focusing on the massive modes of spin-3/2 and spin-2 fields. To this end we determine the spontaneously broken gauge symmetries associated to these `higher spin' states and construct the unbroken phase of the Kaluza-Klein theory. We show that for the particular background AdS_3 x S*3 x S*3 a consistent coupling of the first massive spin-3/2 multiplet requires an enhancement of local supersymmetry, which in turn will be spontaneously broken in the Kaluza-Klein vacuum. The corresponding action is constructed as a gauged maximal supergravity in D=3. Subsequently, the symmetries underlying an infinite tower of massive spin-2 states are analyzed in case of a Kaluza-Klein compactification of four-dimensional gravity to D=3. It is shown that the resulting gravity-spin-2 theory is given by a Chern-Simons action of an affine algebra. The global symmetry is determined, which contains an affine extension of the Ehlers group. We show that the broken phase can in turn be constructed via gauging a certain subgroup of the global symmetry group. Finally, deformations of the Kaluza-Klein theory on AdS_3 x S*3 x S*3 and the corresponding symmetry breakings are analyzed as possible applications for the AdS/CFT correspondence.
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