Gauge-Higgs Unification Models in Six Dimensions with Extra Space and GUT Gauge Symmetry.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in High Energy Physics Volume 2012, Article ID 260848, 39 pages doi:10.1155/2012/260848 Review Article Gauge-Higgs Unification Models in Six Dimensions with S2 /Z2 Extra Space and GUT Gauge Symmetry Cheng-Wei Chiang,1, 2, 3 Takaaki Nomura,1 and Joe Sato4 1 Department of Physics and Center for Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, National Central University, Chungli 32001, Taiwan 2 Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan 3 Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan 4 Department of Physics, Saitama University, Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama 355-8570, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Joe Sato, joe@phy.saitama-u.ac.jp Received 28 September 2011; Revised 17 December 2011; Accepted 19 December 2011 Academic Editor: Masaki Yasue Copyright q 2012 Cheng-Wei Chiang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We review gauge-Higgs unification models based on gauge theories defined on six-dimensional spacetime with S2 /Z2 topology in the extra spatial dimensions. Nontrivial boundary conditions are imposed on the extra S2 /Z2 space. This review considers two scenarios for constructing a four-dimensional theory from the six-dimensional model. One scheme utilizes the SO12 gauge symmetry with a special symmetry condition imposed on the gauge field, whereas the other employs the E6 gauge symmetry without requiring the additional symmetry condition. Both