On the semi-classical vacuum structure of the electroweak interaction

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2004.01.001zbMATH Open1078.81077arXivmath-ph/0310034OpenAlexW2127757894MaRDI QIDQ557252FDOQ557252

Authors: Jürgen Tolksdorf 

Publication date: 23 June 2005

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is shown that in the semi-classical approximation of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model the moduli space of vacua can be identified with the first de Rham cohomology group of space-time. This gives a slightly different physical interpretation of the occurrence of the well-known Ahoronov-Bohm effect. Moreover, when charge conjugation is taken into account, the existence of a non-trivial ground state of the Higgs boson is shown to be equivalent to the triviality of the electroweak gauge bundle. As a consequence, the gauge bundle of the electromagnetic interaction must also be trivial. Though derived at ``tree level the results presented here may also have some consequences for quantizing, e. g., electromagnetism on an arbitrary curved space-time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0310034

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zbMATH Keywords

Electroweak sectorSemi-classical vacuum structureSpontaneously broken gauge symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Coherent states (81R30) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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