Finite Temperature Structure of the Compactified Standard Model

TL;DR

This paper investigates how finite temperature influences the structure of the Standard Model when compactified on lower dimensions, revealing that temperature effects eliminate zero-temperature vacua and exploring potential transitions between different spacetime dimensions.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the finite temperature effects on compactified Standard Model, showing the disappearance of vacua and discussing dimensional transition possibilities.

Findings

Finite temperature effects remove zero-temperature vacua.

Transitions between four-dimensional and lower-dimensional spacetimes are possible.

Compactification effects are significantly altered at finite temperature.

Abstract

We analyze the finite temperature structure of the standard model coupled to gravity with one and two dimensions compactified (on a circle and a torus). We find that finite temperature effects wash out any vacua which exist at zero temperature. We also discuss the possibility of transitions between the four-dimensional universe and the lower-dimensional spacetimes.