  The one-loop effects of vacuum polarization induced by untwisted fermions in
QED in a nonsimply connected space-time with topology $S^{1}\times R^{3}$ are
investigated. It is found that photon propagation in this system is
anisotropic, appearing several massive photon modes and a superluminal
transverse mode. For small compactification radius $a$, the superluminal
velocity increases logarithmically with $a$. At low energies the photon masses
lead to an effective confinement of the gauge fields into a (2+1)-dimensional
manifold transverse to the compactified direction. The system shows a
topologically induced directional superconductivity.
