Orbifold resolutions and fermion localization

dc.creatorSerone, Marco
dc.creatorWulzer, Andrea
dc.date2004-09-23
dc.date2005-07-28
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dc.descriptionWe study the Dirac equation of chiral fermions on a regularized version of the two-dimensional T^2/Z_2 orbifold, where the conical singularities are replaced by suitable spherical caps with constant curvature. This study shows how localized and bulk fermions arise in the orbifold as the resolved space approaches the orbifold limit. Our analysis also shows that not all possible fermion configurations on T^2/Z_2 admit such a simple resolution. We focus our study to a fermion coupled to a U(1) gauge field. It is explicitly shown how a resolution of the orbifold puts severe constraints on the allowed chiralities and U(1) charges of the massless four dimensional fermions, localized or not, that can be present in the orbifold. The limit in which T^2/Z_2 (and its corresponding resolved space) collapses to S^1/Z_2 is also studied in detail.
dc.description37 pages, 5 figures; v2: minor improvements and references added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0409229
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0409229
dc.identifierClass.Quant.Grav. 22 (2005) 4621-4650
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0264-9381/22/21/010
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/95922
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleOrbifold resolutions and fermion localization
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