Kaluza-Klein theory with scalar fields and generalised Hopf manifolds

Abstract

The authors consider the spontaneous compactification induced by a scalar sector in the form of a non-linear sigma model. A very general class of solutions is given by Riemannian submersions from the extra dimensional space onto the space in which the scalar fields take values. An explicit example is constructed taking for the extra dimensional space a generalised Hopf manifold. A massless gauge field is associated with a vertical Killing vector of the Lee type.