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  "abstract": "The discovery of the Higgs boson established the existence of a scalar particle associated with electroweak symmetry breaking. Although the Standard Model successfully describes the Higgs field and its interactions, it does not establish that the Higgs field emerges from a more fundamental network of relationships or interacting constituents. This paper explores whether the Universal Interconnected Nodes (UIN) framework can be developed into a mathematical research program for investigating that possibility.\n\nThe central hypothesis is that physical fields may, in a suitably constructed microscopic theory, emerge as collective degrees of freedom of interacting fundamental constituents organized through a network of connections. The Higgs field is considered a possible effective or composite field arising from such a structure. Three approaches are examined: a network representation of existing fields, an emergent-field model based on collective network variables, and a composite-Higgs model in which strongly interacting fermionic constituents form a scalar bound state.\n\nA graph-based microscopic description is introduced, together with an effective-action formalism, a candidate fermion-bilinear operator, and an illustrative derivation of a Higgs-like effective potential. In a simplified model in which the interaction graph also defines the fermion kinetic operator, the critical coupling for symmetry breaking is expressed through a single dimensionless graph invariant, Π(Γ)=λ_max (A) N^(-1) TrL^+, built from the adjacency and Laplacian spectra. The analysis distinguishes mathematical assumptions from derived results and identifies the conditions required for a viable physical theory, including gauge invariance, electroweak symmetry breaking, anomaly cancellation, renormalization, consistency with measured particle properties, and experimentally distinguishable predictions.\n\nThe paper does not claim that the UIN framework has been experimentally verified or that the Higgs field is known to originate from interconnected nodes. Instead, it establishes a preliminary theoretical framework through which this hypothesis could be formulated, tested, and compared with established composite-Higgs and dynamical-symmetry-breaking theories.",
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      "name": "Angelito Malicse"
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  "published": "2026-10-16",
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  "title": "Toward an Emergent Higgs Field from Universal Interconnected Nodes A Network-Based and Composite-Field Research Program for Fundamental Physics",
  "title_text": "Toward an Emergent Higgs Field from Universal Interconnected Nodes A Network-Based and Composite-Field Research Program for Fundamental Physics",
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