Published December 15, 1975
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Journal article
Impossibility of spontaneously breaking local symmetries
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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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review D
- Journal Volume
- 12
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 3978-3982
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 7253022
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRAL; GAUGE INVARIANCE; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL; SPACE-TIME; SYMMETRY BREAKING
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS
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