Exploring variations in the gauge sector of a six-dimensional flavour model

Abstract

We address the question, how general is the gauge sector in extra-dimensional models which explain hierarchies of masses and mixings of quarks, charged leptons and neutrinos in terms of a single family of multidimensional fermions. We give qualitative arguments that though there are a plethora of possible variations, they do not result in drastical changes of phenomenology.

13 pages. To be published in a special issue of JETP dedicated to the 60th birthday of Valery Rubakov