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Borcherds-Kac-Moody Symmetry of N=4 Dyons
We consider compactifications of heterotic string theory to four dimensions
on CHL orbifolds of the type T^6 /Z_N with 16 supersymmetries. The exact
partition functions of the quarter-BPS dyons in these models are given in terms
of genus-two Siegel modular forms. Only the N=1,2,3 models satisfy a certain
finiteness condition, and in these cases one can identify a Borcherds-Kac-Moody
superalgebra underlying the symmetry structure of the dyon spectrum. We
identify the real roots, and find that the corresponding Cartan matrices
exhaust a known classification. We show that the Siegel modular form satisfies
the Weyl denominator identity of the algebra, which enables the determination
of all root multiplicities. Furthermore, the Weyl group determines the
structure of wall-crossings and the attractor flows of the theory. For N> 4, no
such interpretation appears to be possible.Comment: 44 pages, 1 figur
Collective Quartics and Dangerous Singlets in Little Higgs
Any extension of the standard model that aims to describe TeV-scale physics
without fine-tuning must have a radiatively-stable Higgs potential. In little
Higgs theories, radiative stability is achieved through so-called collective
symmetry breaking. In this letter, we focus on the necessary conditions for a
little Higgs to have a collective Higgs quartic coupling. In one-Higgs doublet
models, a collective quartic requires an electroweak triplet scalar. In
two-Higgs doublet models, a collective quartic requires a triplet or singlet
scalar. As a corollary of this study, we show that some little Higgs theories
have dangerous singlets, a pathology where collective symmetry breaking does
not suppress quadratically-divergent corrections to the Higgs mass.Comment: 4 pages; v2: clarified the existing literature; v3: version to appear
in JHE
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