RG flows in non-perturbative gauge-Higgs unification I

We initiate the continuum description of a non-perturbative 5d lattice Yang–Mills model with 4d boundaries using the ε-expansion. In its simplest version classically the bulk has an SU(2) gauge symmetry and on the boundary there is an Abelian–Higgs system with zero scalar potential. In part I we com...

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Main Authors: Nikos Irges, Fotis Koutroulis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-12-01
Series:Nuclear Physics B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321318302906