arXiv · 2505.13736
Response of Kaluza-Klein mass spectrum to deformations of rugby-ball compact space
Abstract
We investigate the response of the Kaluza-Klein (KK) mass spectrum to various deformations of the rugby-ball background in 6-dimensional supergravity. We derived the mode equations that contain the 3-dimensional scale factor and the lapse function. By solving these, we numerically evaluate the KK masses for a bulk scalar and a spinor when the background has a nontrivial dependence on the position in the compact space. We clarify some qualitative features of the spectrum deformation for some perturbations of the rugby-ball background. For perturbations of a supersymmetric background, we find that the mass-splitting between bosonic and fermionic modes is much smaller than the deviation from the values of the supersymmetric mass eigenvalues.
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Hajime Otsuka, Yutaka Sakamura. 2025-05-19. Response of Kaluza-Klein mass spectrum to deformations of rugby-ball compact space. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13736
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