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Gauge Theory on Fiber Bundle of Hypercomplex Algebras

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-06-29 v3

Abstract

I introduce a way of constructing a fiber bundle whose fibers are given by hypercomplex algebras and woven by appropriate structure group, and present that a novel gauge theory can be built on the hypercomplex fiber bundle. In this work, I aim to answer a question about how nature selects one preferred vacuum among degenerate physical vacua, called {\it vacuum selection problem}. In the end, I found presence of the impenetrable domain wall that prohibits phase transition between the two vacua. To be specific, I found that in this theory, one particular vacuum between two degenerate physical vacua for Higgs-like scalar potential can be dynamically chosen with priority due to intrinsic even parity of both a scalar field and its vacuum under a Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 symmetry, even though its scalar potential is given to be Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-symmetric under both odd- and even-parity transformations of the scalar field. This means that the vacuum selection problem can be resolved in this gauge theory. I suggest that this work may be a gateway to addressing the theoretical origin of the true physical vacuum that nature takes.

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@article{arxiv.2303.08159,
  title  = {Gauge Theory on Fiber Bundle of Hypercomplex Algebras},
  author = {Hun Jang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.08159},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

17 pages, 2 figures; v3: version published in Nucl. Phys. B 993 (2023) 116281