Light excitations in 5-dimensional gauge theories

Abstract

We consider general five-dimensional gauge theories compactified on on an orbifold S1/Z2 with all fields propagating in the bulk. We propose a generalized set of boundary conditions and derive the general features of the low energy-spectrum. The results are illustrated with two simple examples.

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures; requires revtex4. Typo in equation (9) corrected