Dimensional reduction of fermions in brane worlds of the Gross-Neveu model


Por: Bietenholz W., Gfeller A., Wiese U.-J.

Publicada: 1 ene 2003
Resumen:
We study the dimensional reduction of fermions, both in the symmetric and in the broken phase of the 3-d Gross-Neveu model at large N. In particular, in the broken phase we construct an exact solution for a stable brane world consisting of a domain wall and an anti-wall. A left-handed 2-d fermion localized on the domain wall and a right-handed fermion localized on the anti-wall communicate with each other through the 3-d bulk. In this way they are bound together to form a Dirac fermion of mass m. As a consequence of asymptotic freedom of the 2-d Gross-Neveu model, the 2-d correlation length ? = 1/m increases exponentially with the brane separation. Hence, from the low-energy point of view of a 2-d observer, the separation of the branes appears very small and the world becomes indistinguishable from a 2-d space-time. Our toy model provides a mechanism for brane stabilization: branes made of fermions may be stable due to their baryon asymmetry. Ironically, our brane world is stable only if it has an extreme baryon asymmetry with all states in this "world" being completely filled. © SISSA/ISAS 2003.

Filiaciones:
Bietenholz W.:
 Institut für Physik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Newtonstrasse 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

Gfeller A.:
 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

Wiese U.-J.:
 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

 MIT, United States
ISSN: 11266708
Editorial
Springer Heidelberg, 233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA, Estados Unidos America
Tipo de documento: Article
Volumen: 7 Número: 10
Páginas: 353-376
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