PT-symmetric interpretation of unstable effective potentials
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-05-18 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Quantum Physics
Abstract
The conventional interpretation of the one-loop effective potentials of the Higgs field in the Standard Model and the gravitino condensate in dynamically broken supergravity is that these theories are unstable at large field values. A PT-symmetric reinterpretation of these models at a quantum-mechanical level eliminates these instabilities and suggests that these instabilities may also be tamed at the quantum-field-theory level.
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@article{arxiv.1506.01970,
title = {PT-symmetric interpretation of unstable effective potentials},
author = {Carl M. Bender and Daniel W. Hook and Nick E. Mavromatos and Sarben Sarkar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.01970},
year = {2017}
}
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5 pages, 7 figures