title: Minimal potentials with very many minima
abstract: We demonstrate, by construction, that simple renormalizable matrix potentials with S(N), as opposed to O(N), symmetry can exhibit an exponentially large number of inequivalent deep local minima.
authors.affiliation: Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1098, USA.
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authors.lastname: Solja&cbreve;ic
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authors.lastname: Wilczek