An example of Kaluza-Klein-like theory with boundary conditions, which lead to massless and mass protected spinors chirally coupled to gauge fields

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.12.065zbMath1247.83182arXivhep-th/0509101OpenAlexW2041582547MaRDI QIDQ454011

Norma Susana Mankoč Borštnik

Publication date: 30 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0509101

zbMATH Keywords

chirally coupled massless spinorsKaluza-Klein-like theories with boundaries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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Cites Work

• Spinor and vector representations in four-dimensional Grassmann space
• How to generate families of spinors

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