Fermionic Zero Modes in Gauge and Gravity Backgrounds on a Sphere

• 来源期刊: 理论物理通讯(英文版)
• 年，卷（期）: 2008,（6）
• 页码范围: 1577-1579
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

In this letter we study fermionic zero modes in gauge and gravity backgrounds taking a two-dimensional compact manifold S2 as extra dimensions. The result is that there exist massless Dirac fermions which have normalizable zero modes under quite general assumptions about these backgrounds on the bulk. Several special cases of gauge background on the sphere axe discussed and some simple fermionic zero modes are obtained.