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Stability, electroweak symmetry breaking, and the stationarity equations of the general three-Higgs doublet model (3HDM) where all doublets carry the same hypercharge are discussed in detail. Employing the bilinear formalism the study of the 3HDM potential turns out to be straightforward.
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Maniatis, M., Nachtmann, O. Stability and symmetry breaking in the general three-Higgs-doublet model. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 58 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2015)058
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