Published February 1989
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Journal article
Spontaneous symmetry breaking of affine field theory
Description
It is possible to construct non-Abelian field theories by gauging Kac-Moody algebras. Here we discuss the spontaneous symmetry breaking of such theories via the Higgs mechanism. If the Higgs particle lies in the Cartan subalgebra of the Kac-Moody algebra, the previously massless vectors acquire a mass spectrum that is linear in the Kac-Moody index and has additional fine structure depending on the associated Lie algebra. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Letters in Mathematical Physics
- Journal Volume
- 17
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Series
- Lett. Math. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 157-164
- ISSN
- 0377-9017
- CODEN
- LMPHD
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 20057874
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGEBRA; CONFORMAL GROUPS; FINE STRUCTURE; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; HIGGS MODEL; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; PARTICLE MULTIPLETS; REST MASS; SCALAR FIELDS; SL GROUPS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; VECTOR FIELDS
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; LIE GROUPS; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; MULTIPLETS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRY GROUPS