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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.
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Unwin, J. Vacuum stability and the Cholesky decomposition. Eur. Phys. J. C 71, 1663 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1663-9
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