Published December 15, 1975 | Version v1
Journal article

Impossibility of spontaneously breaking local symmetries

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Description

It is argued that a spontaneous breaking of local symmetry for a symmetrical gauge theory without gauge fixing is impossible. The argument is demonstrated in a simple system of Abelian gauge fields on a lattice

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Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
12
Journal Issue
12
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
3978-3982
ISSN
0556-2821

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