One residue to rule them all: Electroweak symmetry breaking, inflation and field-space geometry
We point out that the successful generation of the electroweak scale via gravitational instanton configurations in certain scalar-tensor theories can be viewed as the aftermath of a simple requirement: the existence of a quadratic pole with a sufficiently small residue in the Einstein-frame kinetic...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Physics Letters B |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320306791 |