PT-symmetric interpretation of unstable effective potentials

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/45/45LT01MaRDI QIDQ3178660zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Daniel W. Hook, Nick E. Mavromatos, Sarben Sarkar, Carl M. Bender

Publication date 6 December 2016

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01970

zbMATH Keywords

effective potentialvacuum stability\(\mathcal {PT}\)-symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Supergravity (83E50)

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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