Published February 1987 | Version v1
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism for quaternion fields

Creators

  • 1. School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia

Description

In the context of quaternion valued fields spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism are investigated. In particular, for the potential -(μ2/2)phi-barphi-(λ/4)(phi-barphi)2, Goldstone's theorem is studied and, for the gauge theory of automorphisms of the quaternions, a Higgs mechanism investigated

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
J. Math. Phys. (N.Y.)
Journal Volume
28
Journal Issue
2
Series
J. Math. Phys. (N.Y.).
Journal Page Range
463-467
ISSN
0022-2488
CODEN
JMAPA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
18053310
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
COMMUTATION RELATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; POTENTIALS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SCALAR FIELDS; SYMMETRY BREAKING
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES