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) model compactified on , which allows to impose twisted boundary conditions for the -direction. The O(N) symmetry can be broken to explicitly by the boundary conditions and further broken to spontaneously by vacuum expectation values of the fields. The symmetries and are completely classified and the model turns out to have unexpectedly a rich phase structure. The unbroken symmetry is shown to depend on not only the boundary conditions but also the radius of , 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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11 pages