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Unitarity, Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin symmetry, and Ward identities in orbifold gauge theories

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We discuss the use of BRST symmetry and the resulting Ward identities as consistency checks for orbifold gauge theories in an arbitrary number of dimensions. We demonstrate that both the usual orbifold symmetry breaking and the recently proposed Higgsless symmetry breaking are consistent with the nilpotency of the BRST transformation. The corresponding Ward identities for four-point functions of the theory engender relations among the coupling constants that are equivalent to the sum rules from tree level unitarity. We present the complete set of these sum rules also for inelastic scattering and discuss applications to six-dimensional models and to incomplete matter multiplets on orbifold fixed points.