Higher Loop Effects on Unification via Kaluza-Klein Thresholds

Abstract

We discuss higher loop corrections to gauge coupling renormalization in the context of gauge coupling unification via Kaluza-Klein thresholds. We show that in the case N=1 supersymmetric compactifications the one-loop threshold contributions are dominant, while the higher loop correction are subleading. This is due to the fact that at heavy Kaluza-Klein levels the spectrum as well as the interactions are N=2 supersymmetric. In particular, we give two different arguments leading to this result - one is field theoretic, while the second one utilizes the power of string perturbation techniques. To illustrate our discussions we perform explicit two-loop computations of various corrections to gauge couplings within this framework. We also remark on phenomenological applications of our discussions in the context of TeV-scale brane world.

27 pages, revtex; minor misprints corrected, some comments modified (to appear in Nucl. Phys. B)

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