DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s2003-01177-5
On vector Goldstone boson
L.-F. LiDepartment of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
(Received: 3 January 2002 / Published online: 14 March 2003 )
Abstract
The possibility that higher dimensional field theories are broken
spontaneously, through the usual Nambu-Goldstone mechanism, to 4-dimension is
explored. As a consequence, vector Goldstone bosons can arise in this breaking
of Lorentzian symmetry from higher dimension to 4-dimension. This can provide
a simple mechanism for reduction to 4-dimension in theories with extra dimensions.
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