The effective potential of the two Higgs doublet model
i. Overview
An effective potential of the two Higgs doublet model is a real-valued function
V : TwoHiggsDoublet → ℝ of the field configuration. This file introduces the two physical
properties of such a potential used when expressing it through the gauge-invariant bilinears:
IsInvariant V — invariance under the global gauge group, and
HasMaxMassDimLE V n — being a polynomial in the field components of mass dimension ≤ n.
ii. Key results
EffectivePotential — the type of effective potentials.
IsInvariant — gauge invariance of a potential.
HasMaxMassDimLE — being a bounded-degree polynomial in the field components.
HasMaxMassDimLE.exists_comp_linear_poly — a polynomial potential, restricted along any
real-linear parametrisation of configurations, is a polynomial in the parameters.
iii. Table of contents
A. The effective potential and its gauge invariance
A polynomial potential, restricted along any real-linear parametrisation L of field
configurations, is a genuine polynomial in the parameters. This is the bookkeeping that lets the
potential be evaluated on the field components of a gauge slice.