Symmetry Breaking in Six Dimensional Flux Compactification Scenarios

Understand

Motivated by the electroweak hierarchy problem, we consider theories with two extra dimensions in which the four-dimensional scalar fields are components of gauge boson in full space, namely the Gauge-Higgs unification framework.

• We briefly explain the basics features of "flux compactification", i.e.
• compactification in presence of a background (magnetic) flux.
• In particular we recall how chirality and symmetry breaking can be obtained in this context.