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Shift-Symmetries at Higher Order

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-03-23 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The fate of shift-symmetries in effective string models is considered beyond tree-level. Such symmetries have been proposed in the past as a way to maintain a hierarchically small Higgs mass and also play a role in schemes of cosmological relaxation. It is argued that on general grounds one expects shift-symmetries to be restored in the limit of certain asymmetric compactifications, to all orders in perturbation theory. This behaviour is verified by explicit computation of the Kaehler potential to one-loop order.

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@article{arxiv.1511.02880,
  title  = {Shift-Symmetries at Higher Order},
  author = {Steven Abel and Richard J. Stewart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.02880},
  year   = {2016}
}

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19 pages

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