PT -symmetric interpretation of unstable effective potentials

TY - JOUR

T1 - PT -symmetric interpretation of unstable effective potentials

AU - Bender, Carl M.

AU - Hook, Daniel W.

AU - Mavromatos, Nikolaos E

AU - Sarkar, Sarben

PY - 2016/10/13

Y1 - 2016/10/13

N2 - 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 ${ \mathcal P }{ \mathcal T }$-symmetric reinterpretation of these models at a quantum-mechanical level eliminates these instabilities and suggests the conjecture that these instabilities may also be tamed at the quantum-field-theory level.

AB - 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 ${ \mathcal P }{ \mathcal T }$-symmetric reinterpretation of these models at a quantum-mechanical level eliminates these instabilities and suggests the conjecture that these instabilities may also be tamed at the quantum-field-theory level.

U2 - 10.1088/1751-8113/49/45/45LT01

DO - 10.1088/1751-8113/49/45/45LT01

M3 - Letter

SN - 1751-8113

VL - 49

JO - Journal Of Physics A-Mathematical And Theoretical

JF - Journal Of Physics A-Mathematical And Theoretical

IS - 45

M1 - 45LT01

ER -