One loop renormalization of 5D gauge-Yukawa theories

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that five-dimensional gauge-Yukawa theories can remain predictive at arbitrarily high energies if they possess UV fixed points and only require a finite number of counterterms, challenging the common lore about extra-dimensional theories.

Contribution

It provides the first explicit one-loop renormalization analysis showing 5D gauge-Yukawa theories can be UV complete with fixed points, under specific conditions.

Findings

Bulk and localized divergences computed for 5D theories on S^1/Z_2.

Existence of UV fixed points constrains model content.

Theories with only 4D-renormalizable interactions can be consistent at high energies.

Abstract

The common lore dictates that extra dimensional theories loose predictive power at energies just above the compatification scale, due to the power-law running of bulk coupling. We show that five-dimensional gauge-Yukawa theories can be valid up to arbitrarily high scales, provided: 1) A finite number of terms are required to absorb power-law divergences; 2) All power-law running couplings flow to UV fixed points. By explicitly computing bulk and localized divergences for a gauge-Yukawa theory on $\mathcal{S}^1/\mathbb{Z}_2$, we prove the one-loop renormalization properties of Lagrangians containing only interactions that would be renormalizable in four dimensions. The existence of UV fixed points imposes further constraints on the content of the model. Our results provide a consistency check for the high-energy behavior of any 5D theory, and provide a discrimination between UV consistent models and those that can describe only a handful of Kaluza-Klein modes. Hence, we offer the first concrete step towards an all-order proof of `renormalizability' for gauge-Yukawa theories in five dimensions.