The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble Development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles
Abstract
I discuss historical material about the beginning of the ideas of spontaneous symmetry breaking and particularly the role of the paper by Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble in this development. I do so adding a touch of some more modern ideas about the extended solution-space of quantum field theory resulting from the intrinsic nonlinearity of nontrivial interactions.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Pub Date:
- 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0217751X09045431
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0907.3466
- Bibcode:
- 2009IJMPA..24.2601G
- Keywords:
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- 11.25.Hf;
- 123.1K;
- Conformal field theory algebraic structures;
- Physics - History of Physics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 26 pages, historical review