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Symmetry Breaking

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-3-540-73593-9

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This new edition of Prof. Strocchi's well received primer on rigorous aspects of symmetry breaking presents a more detailed and thorough discussion of the mechanism of symmetry breaking in classical field theory in relation with the Noether theorem. Moreover, the link between symmetry breaking without massless Goldstone bosons in Coulomb systems and in gauge theories is made more explicit in terms of the delocalized Coulomb dynamics. Furthermore, the chapter on the Higgs mechanism has been significantly expanded with a non-perturbative treatment of the Higgs phenomenon, at the basis of the standard model of particle physics, in the local and in the Coulomb gauges.


Subject: Physics and Astronomy, Algebraic structure, Gauge theory, Goldstone theorem, Higgs mechanism, Particle Physics, Theoretical physics, mathematical physics, quantum mechanics, spontaneous symmetry breaking, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Topological Groups, Lie Groups, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory, Quantum Physics