Properties of the general NHDM. II. Higgs potential and its symmetries
English
Ivanov, Igor[Université de Liège - ULg > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Interactions fondamentales en physique et astrophysique >]
[en] We continue our analysis of the general N-Higgs-doublet model and focus of the Higgs potential description in the space of gauge orbits. We develop a geometric technique that allows us to study the global minimum of the potential without explicitly finding its position. We discuss symmetry patterns of the NHDM potential, and illustrate the general discussion with various specific variants of the three-Higgs-doublet model.