https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0822-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Coset space dimensional reduction and Wilson flux breaking of ten-dimensional
, E
8 gauge theory
Physics Department, National Technical University, Zografou Campus, 15780, Athens, Greece
* e-mail: tgrammat@mail.ntua.gr
Received:
20
October
2008
Revised:
26
November
2008
Published online:
12
December
2008
We consider a
supersymmetric E
8 gauge theory, defined in ten dimensions and we determine all four-dimensional gauge theories resulting from the generalized dimensional reduction à la Forgacs–Manton over coset spaces, followed by a subsequent application of the Wilson flux spontaneous symmetry-breaking mechanism. Our investigation is constrained only by the requirements that (i) the dimensional reduction leads to the potentially phenomenologically interesting, anomaly-free, four-dimensional E
6, SO10 and SU5 GUTs and (ii) the Wilson flux mechanism makes use only of the freely acting discrete symmetries of all possible six-dimensional coset spaces.
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