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An example of Kaluza-Klein-like theories leading after compactification to massless spinors coupled to a gauge field

N. S. Mankoc Borstnik, H. B. Nielsen

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0311037

Abstract

The genuine Kaluza-Klein-like theories (with no fields in addition to gravity with torsion) have difficulties with the existence of massless spinors after the compactification of some of dimensions of spacewitten. We demonstrate in this letter on an example of a flat torus - as a compactified part of an (1+5)-dimensional space - that for constant fields and appropriate boundary conditions there exists in the 1+3 dimensional space a massless solution, which is mass protected and chirally coupled with a Kaluza-Klein charge to the corresponding gauge field.

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