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Impossibility of spontaneously breaking local symmetries
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- Elitzur, S.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1975-12-15
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 3978-3982
- ISSN
- 0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2104549471
- Cited by
- 674
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 2.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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