Conformal extension of gauge theories with spontaneously broken symmetry

1987 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 1220-1228
Author(s):  
L. K. Norris ◽  
R. O. Fulp ◽  
W. R. Davis
1983 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 1871-1887 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. O. Fulp ◽  
L. K. Norris

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (09) ◽  
pp. 1450046 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. S. Guralnik ◽  
C. R. Hagen

According to a commonly held view of spontaneously broken symmetry in gauge theories, troublesome Nambu–Goldstone bosons are effectively eliminated by turning into longitudinal modes of a massive vector meson. This note shows that, this is not in fact, a consistent view of the role of Nambu–Goldstone bosons in such theories. These particles necessarily appear as gauge excitations, whenever they are formulated in a manifestly covariant gauge. The radiation gauge provides therefore the dual advantage of circumventing the Goldstone theorem and making evident the disappearance of these particles from the physical spectrum.


1983 ◽  
Vol 140 (7) ◽  
pp. 429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgenii A. Turov ◽  
Vladimir G. Shavrov
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Author(s):  
Laurent Baulieu ◽  
John Iliopoulos ◽  
Roland Sénéor

A geometrical derivation of Abelian and non- Abelian gauge theories. The Faddeev–Popov quantisation. BRST invariance and ghost fields. General discussion of BRST symmetry. Application to Yang–Mills theories and general relativity. A brief history of gauge theories.


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