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Main Authors: Asai, Kento, Honda, Yuki, Ishikawa, Hiroki, Sato, Joe, Takanishi, Yasutaka
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19829
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author Asai, Kento
Honda, Yuki
Ishikawa, Hiroki
Sato, Joe
Takanishi, Yasutaka
author_facet Asai, Kento
Honda, Yuki
Ishikawa, Hiroki
Sato, Joe
Takanishi, Yasutaka
contents We consider symmetry breaking of arbitrary gauge groups on a six-dimensional space-time which consists of a four-dimensional Minkowski space-time $M^4$ and a two-dimensional sphere $S^2$. We expand the gauge fields in the presence of a non-trivial background unique to $S^2$. We analyze Kaluza-Klein(KK) modes of the gauge fields and derive the mass spectrum of the KK modes. We found that the gauge fields (not) commuting with the background fields (do not) remain symmetry operators in four dimensions. We also discuss the mass spectrum of the extra-dimensional components of the gauge fields and identify a physical scalar $ϕ$ and a Nambu-Goldstone mode $χ$. As a result, we obtain a method to break gauge symmetry due to the nontrivial solution for gauge fields which is a unique feature of $S^2$.
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spellingShingle Gauge symmetry breaking with $S^2$ extra dimensions
Asai, Kento
Honda, Yuki
Ishikawa, Hiroki
Sato, Joe
Takanishi, Yasutaka
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
We consider symmetry breaking of arbitrary gauge groups on a six-dimensional space-time which consists of a four-dimensional Minkowski space-time $M^4$ and a two-dimensional sphere $S^2$. We expand the gauge fields in the presence of a non-trivial background unique to $S^2$. We analyze Kaluza-Klein(KK) modes of the gauge fields and derive the mass spectrum of the KK modes. We found that the gauge fields (not) commuting with the background fields (do not) remain symmetry operators in four dimensions. We also discuss the mass spectrum of the extra-dimensional components of the gauge fields and identify a physical scalar $ϕ$ and a Nambu-Goldstone mode $χ$. As a result, we obtain a method to break gauge symmetry due to the nontrivial solution for gauge fields which is a unique feature of $S^2$.
title Gauge symmetry breaking with $S^2$ extra dimensions
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19829