https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1663-9
Letter
Vacuum stability and the Cholesky decomposition
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24-29 St. Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK
* e-mail: unwin@maths.ox.ac.uk
Received:
20
February
2011
Published online:
27
May
2011
We discuss how the Cholesky decomposition may be used to ascertain whether a critical point of the field theory scalar potential provides a stable vacuum configuration. We then use this method to derive the stability conditions in a specific example.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2011