Involution requirement on a boundary makes massless fermions compactified on a finite flat disk mass protected

Details Involution requirement on a boundary makes massless fermions compactified on a finite flat disk mass protected Involution requirement on a boundary makes massless fermions compactified on a finite flat disk mass protected

2006-12-13

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612126v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

16 pages, revised extended version

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The genuine Kaluza-Klein-like theories--with no fields in addition to gravity--have difficulties with the existence of massless spinors after the compactification of some space dimensions \cite{witten}. We proposed (Phys. Lett. B 633 (2006)771) such a boundary condition for spinors in 1+5 compactified on a flat disk that ensures masslessness of spinors in d=1+3 as well as their chiral coupling to the corresponding background gauge field (which solves equations of motion for a free field linear in the Riemann curvature). In this paper we study the same toy model: M^{(1+3)} x M^{(2)}, looking this time for an involution which transforms a space of solutions of Weyl equations in d=1+5 from the outside of the flat disk in x^5 and x^6 into its inside, allowing massless spinor of only one handedness--and accordingly assures mass protection--and of one charge--1/2--and infinitely many massive spinors of the same charge, chirally coupled to the corresponding background gauge field. We reformulate the operator of momentum so that it is Hermitean on the vector space of spinor states obeying the involution boundary condition.

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