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Conditions for the custodial symmetry in multi-Higgs-doublet models

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-05-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We derive basis-independent, necessary and sufficient conditions for the custodial symmetry in N-Higgs-doublet models (NHDM) for N > 2, and apply them on some 3HDM examples.

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@article{arxiv.1801.00519,
  title  = {Conditions for the custodial symmetry in multi-Higgs-doublet models},
  author = {M. Aa. Solberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00519},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

37 pages, 1 figure. A section on spontaneous breaking of the custodial SO(4) symmetry is added, in addition to a section on the Ivanov-Silva model and a discussion of theorem 1 in the case N=2. Equivalent to the version published in JHEP