Dynamical Higgs potentials with a landscape

Abstract

We consider one-loop effective potentials for adjoint Higgs fields that originate from flat holonomies in toroidal compactification of gauge theories. We show that such potentials are "landscape-like" for large gauge groups and generic non-supersymmetric matter representations. In particular, there is a large number of vacua with similar local properties, scanning a broad band of vacuum energies.

17 pages

References in corpus (16)

• de Sitter Vacua in String Theory
• Quantization of Four-form Fluxes and Dynamical Neutralization of the Cosmological Constant
• (De)Constructing Dimensions
• The statistics of string/M theory vacua
• The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory
• Toroidal Compactification Without Vector Structure
• Exact Results in Non-Supersymmetric Large N Orientifold Field Theories
• An Open String Landscape
• Saltatory de Sitter String Vacua
• The Phase Structure of Low Dimensional Large N Gauge Theories on Tori
• Landskepticism: or Why Effective Potentials Don't Count String Models
• A Calculable Toy Model of the Landscape
• Small volume expansion of almost supersymmetric large N theories
• Dynamical Gauge Symmetry Breaking by Wilson Lines in the Electroweak Theory
• Yang-Mills Fields on the 4-dimensional torus. Part I: Classical Theory
• Large N orbifold field theories on the twisted torus

Cited by in corpus (7)

• Finite Volume Phases of Large N Gauge Theories with Massive Adjoint Fermions
• Baryon currents in QCD with compact dimensions
• Elementary Theorems Regarding Blue Isocurvature Perturbations
• Fermionic Isocurvature Perturbations
• Quadratic Isocurvature Cross-Correlation, Ward Identity, and Dark Matter
• Confinement, Screening and the Center on S^3 x S^1
• Spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries in QCD on a small volume