Top quark seesaw theory of electroweak symmetry breaking

We study electroweak symmetry breaking involving the seesaw mechanism of quark condensation. These models produce a composite Higgs boson involving the left-handed top quark, yet the top quark mass arises naturally at the observed scale: We describe a schematic model which illustrates the general dynamical ideas. We also consider a generic Low-energy effective theory which includes several composite scalars, and we use the effective potential formalism to compute their spectrum. We develop a more detailed model in which certain features of the schematic model are replaced by additional dynamics. [S0556-2821 (99)02105-0].