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Novel Phase Structure of Twisted O(N) phi^4 model on M^D-1 \times S^1

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-19 v2

Abstract

We study the O(N) ϕ4\phi^4 model compactified on MD1S1M^{D-1}\otimes S^1, which allows to impose twisted boundary conditions for the S1S^1-direction. The O(N) symmetry can be broken to HH explicitly by the boundary conditions and further broken to II spontaneously by vacuum expectation values of the fields. The symmetries HH and II are completely classified and the model turns out to have unexpectedly a rich phase structure. The unbroken symmetry II is shown to depend on not only the boundary conditions but also the radius of S1S^1, and the symmetry breaking patterns are found to be unconventional. The spontaneous breakdown of the translational invariance is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0005017,
  title  = {Novel Phase Structure of Twisted O(N) phi^4 model on M^D-1 \times S^1},
  author = {Katsuhiko Ohnishi and Makoto Sakamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0005017},
  year   = {2010}
}

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