Symmetry Breaking

• Main Author: Strocchi, Franco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 732
• Subjects: Physics.; Topological groups.; Lie groups.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Quantum physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Topological Groups, Lie Groups.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Quantum Physics.

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...