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Goofy-compatible 3HDMs and beyond

I. de Medeiros Varzielas and A. Kunčinas

Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 21 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/1t4c-884t

Abstract

Beyond conventional Higgs-family and general CP transformations, one may also consider a broader class of non-standard “GOOFy” transformations, in which the scalar fields and their conjugates are assigned related but inequivalent transformations. Although these transformations are not symmetries of a full Lagrangian in the conventional sense, some nevertheless stabilise the scalar potential. Their impact on the quadratic sector has not yet been systematically classified. We develop a sign-orbit technique to determine the bilinear structures compatible with these transformations. Applied to three-Higgs-doublet models, and formulated so as to extend to larger multi-Higgs sectors, the method shows that a non-vanishing GOOFy-compatible quadratic sector exists only when two independent conditions are met: the underlying group admits a non-trivial sign character, and that character is realised within the tensor product of the scalar representation and its conjugate. As a key consequence, we demonstrate that the renormalisation-group stability of the r0 →−r0 manifold in isolation is not a generic feature of multi-Higgs potentials, but rather a direct consequence of special algebraic properties of SU(2). These results provide a classification of the admissible GOOFy quadratic structures and their invariant bilinear subspaces, highlighting the algebraic obstructions to their renormalisation-group stability.

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