Abstract
We investigate supersymmetric Kaluza-Klein theory for a realistic unification theory. To account for chiral phenomenology of low energy physics, the Kaluza-Klein world must be of even dimensions, and for a theory beyond ten dimensions, we must introduce extra time-like dimension. However, we can avoid massless ghosts in 4-dimensional spacetime after spontaneous compactification of the ground state, and the cosmological constant is zero.
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Published: 1 January 1989
First available in Project Euclid: 18 November 2014
zbMATH: 0681.53056
MathSciNet: MR1020803
Rights: Copyright © 1989, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Institute, The Australian National University. This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher.
