nLab Scherk-Schwarz mechanism

Contents

Contents

Idea

The Scherk-Schwarz mechanism (Scherk-Schwarz 79) is the spontaneous supersymmetry breaking by KK-compactification on a circle whose spin structure imposes anti-periodic boundary conditions for fermion fields.

Examples and applications

Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto brane model for quantum chromodynamics

In the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model non-supersymmetric QCD is geometrically engineered from the D=5 super Yang-Mills theory on D4-branes by wrapping these on a Scherk-Schwarz circle (Witten 98, p. 19)

References

General

The original articles:

Examples and applications

In geometrically engineering of non-supersymmetric QCD from the D=5 super Yang-Mills theory on D4-branes by wrapping these on a Scherk-Schwarz circle (the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model):

  • Edward Witten, p. 19 of: Anti-de Sitter Space, Thermal Phase Transition, And Confinement In Gauge Theories, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys.2:505-532, 1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9803131)

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