Published March 11, 2002
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Journal article
Spontaneously broken spacetime symmetries and Goldstone's theorem
Creators
- 1. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
- 2. Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 (United States)
Description
Goldstone's theorem states that there is a massless mode for each broken symmetry generator. It has been known for a long time that the naive generalization of this counting fails to give the correct number of massless modes for spontaneously broken spacetime symmetries. We explain how to get the right count of massless modes in the general case, and discuss examples involving spontaneously broken Poincare and conformal invariance
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.101602;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0110285v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 88
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Journal Page Range
- p. 101602-101602.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35011095
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; POINCARE GROUPS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE-TIME; SYMMETRY BREAKING
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; SYMMETRY GROUPS; TRANSFORMATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2002 The American Physical Society