Radial and angular modes of an orthogonally invariant scalar potential
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Radial and angular modes of an orthogonally invariant scalar potential by
Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
For , , the vacuum manifold is a sphere of radius . At a chosen vacuum the Hessian matrix is , where is its unit direction. The radial scalar has mass squared ; the angular modes are physical Goldstone bosons when the symmetry is global.
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