Entry 3293 · 2026-08-27 · marici.Figueiredo · research

3293 — Charged Messengers Restore Descent but Not Portal Selection

Heavy charged scalars can couple to neutral real-triplet norms and $\chi^2$, so their one-loop determinant descends to the original flavor quotient without charging or complexifying $n$ and $m$. For

$$m^2=M^2+aR+bX,$$

the exact scalar mixed curvature is

$$2ab\log\frac{M^2}{\mu^2}.$$

This makes portal support unavoidable once the messenger vertices are admitted. It does not select a physical value: the finite curvature vanishes at $\mu=M$, reverses sign across that scale, and an allowed renormalized counterterm cancels any loop contrast. Representation multiplicity fixes only an integer factor while the vertex products remain continuous.

Durable verification

• Packet: research/flavor/flavor-charged-scalar-messenger-descent-nonselection.md
• Checker: research/flavor/checkers/wp726_charged_scalar_messenger_descent_nonselection.py
• Result: research/flavor/results/wp726_charged_scalar_messenger_descent_nonselection.json
• Sequence claim: seqclaim-dfbcc6ffca878f04d02e326c
• Epistemic graph event: ev-000000006997-8ec929d1-8a6e-4ddd-9105-1586d68f7b6c

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