2004/05/31 by Hiroyuki Abe, Hiroyuki Abé, Kiwoon Choi +1 · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Gauge symmetry #Gauge theory #Geometry #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Multiplet #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Orbifold #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Spacetime #Supergravity #Supersymmetric gauge theory #Supersymmetry #Supersymmetry breaking #Theoretical physics #Vacuum expectation value #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/09/001
published as JHEP0409:001,2004 · 16 pages, no figures; conclusion changed for the warped case
openalex publication_date 2004/09/02 · arxiv created 2004/11/14 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss a locally supersymmetric formulation for the boundary Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) terms in 5-dimensional U(1) gauge theory on S1/Z2, using the four-form multiplier mechanism to introduce the necessary Z2-odd FI coefficient. The physical consequence of the boundary FI terms is studied within the full supergravity framework. For both models giving a flat and a warped spacetime geometry, the only meaningful deformation of vacuum configuration induced by the FI terms is a kink-type vacuum expectation value of the vector multiplet scalar field which generate a 5D kink mass for charged hypermultiplet. This result for the four-form induced boundary FI terms is consistent with the one derived by the superfield formulation of 5D conformal supergravity.