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Certain mathematical aspects of Kaluza-Klein theories are discussed, concerned with the ability to truncate the four-dimensional spectrum of states to a finite subsector, including the graviton and Yang-Mills gauge bosons. This yields a criterion by means of which certain exceptional theories are singled out from the generic case.
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Pope, C.N. (1988). Truncations in Kaluza-Klein theories. In: de Vega, H.J., Sánchez, N. (eds) Field Theory, Quantum Gravity and Strings. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 246. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-16452-9_3
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