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Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2002 Volume 75, Issue 2, Pages 63–66 (Mi jetpl3022)

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GRAVITY, ASTROPHYSICS

Momentum space topology of fermion zero modes on brane

G. E. Volovikab

a Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology
b L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: We discuss fermion zero modes within the 3+1 brane — the domain wall between the two vacua in 4+1 spacetime. We do not assume relativistic invariance in 4+1 spacetime, or any special form of the 4+1 action. The only input is that the fermions in bulk are fully gapped and are described by nontrivial momentum-space topology. Then the 3+1 wall between such vacua contains chiral 3+1 fermions. The bosonic collective modes in the wall form the gauge and gravitational fields. In principle, this universality class of fermionic vacua can contain all the ingredients of the Standard Model and gravity.

PACS: 04.50.+h, 11.25.Mj, 11.27.+d, 73.43.-f

Received: 10.12.2001

Language: English


 English version:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2002, 75:2, 55–58

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