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High-Temperature Vacua of the Standard Model from One-Form Symmetry
Abstract
We study the high-temperature vacua of the Standard Model from the perspective of generalized symmetries and the global structure of the gauge group. We analyze the one-loop effective potential for Polyakov loop holonomies, incorporating the gauge identifications induced by gauging discrete subgroups of the electric one-form symmetry. This provides a classification of physically inequivalent vacua for each gauge-group quotient. We further comment on the effects of additional center-charged matter on the residual one-form symmetry and the vacuum structure.
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BibTeX
@misc{xu2026hightemperature,
title = {{High-Temperature Vacua of the Standard Model from One-Form Symmetry}},
author = {Ling-Xiao Xu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.26882},
eprint = {2609.26882},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26882},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - High-Temperature Vacua of the Standard Model from One-Form Symmetry
AU - Ling-Xiao Xu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/22
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.26882
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26882
AB - We study the high-temperature vacua of the Standard Model from the perspective of generalized symmetries and the global structure of the gauge group. We analyze the one-loop effective potential for Polyakov loop holonomies, incorporating the gauge identifications induced by gauging discrete subgroups of the electric one-form symmetry. This provides a classification of physically inequivalent vacua for each gauge-group quotient. We further comment on the effects of additional center-charged matter on the residual one-form symmetry and the vacuum structure.
ER -