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Minimal Potentials with Very Many Minima

Condensed Matter 2009-01-23 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We demonstrate, by construction, that simple renormalizable matrix potentials with S_N, as opposed to O(N), symmetry can exhibit an exponentially large number of inequivalent deep local minima.

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9904190,
  title  = {Minimal Potentials with Very Many Minima},
  author = {Marin Soljacic and Frank Wilczek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9904190},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LaTeX, 9 pages, 2 figures. Additional applications and references added