Dimensional reduction of symmetric gauge fields, Higgs models, and spontaneous compactification

Journal Article · Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · Soviet Journal of Particles and Nuclei (English Translation); (USA)

OSTI ID:5092578

Volobuev, I P; Kubyshin, Y A ^[1]; Mourao, J M ^[2]; Rudolph, G ^[3]

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1. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SU)
2. University of Lisbon, Portugal (PT)
3. Karl Marx University, Leipzig, German Democratic Republic (DD)

Questions relating to the dimensional reduction of symmetric gauge fields in multidimensional spaces of the form {ital E}={ital M}{times}{ital G}/{ital H} are discussed. For such fields a general geometrical method of dimensional reduction and a method for calculating the potentials of the scalar fields of the reduced theory in the case of symmetric spaces {ital G}/{ital H} are presented systematically. The connection between dimensional reduction of gauge fields and the theory of spontaneous compactification and the physical interpretation of the solutions of this theory is traced in detail. Much attention is devoted to the application of the method of dimensional reduction to fermion matter fields and to the construction by this method of realistic models of the interactions of elementary particles in Minkowski space.

• OSTI ID: 5092578
• Journal Information: Soviet Journal of Particles and Nuclei (English Translation); (USA), Vol. 20:3; ISSN 0090-4759
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
COMPACTIFICATION
DIMENSIONS
FERMIONS
GAUGE INVARIANCE
HIGGS MODEL
MINKOWSKI SPACE
POTENTIALS
SCALAR FIELDS
FIELD THEORIES
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATHEMATICAL SPACE
PARTICLE MODELS
SPACE
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