Bosonic Fields in the String-like Defect Model
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We study localization of bosonic bulk fields on a string-like defect with codimension 2 in a general space-time dimension in detail. We show that in cases of spin 0 scalar and spin 1 vector fields there are an infinite number of massless Kaluza-Klein (KK) states which are degenerate with respect to the radial quantum number, but only the massless zero mode state among them is coupled to fermion on the string-like defect. It is also commented on interesting extensions of the model at hand to various directions such as 'little' superstring theory, conformal field theory and a supersymmetric construction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0008012,
title = {Bosonic Fields in the String-like Defect Model},
author = {Ichiro Oda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0008012},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, LaTex 2e, revised version (to appear in Phys. Rev. D)