From symmetry breaking to topology change I

Ferrante, Daniel D.; Guralnik, Gerald S.

From symmetry breaking to topology change I

Daniel D. Ferrante
(
- Brown U.
)
,
Gerald S. Guralnik
(
- Brown U.
)

Sep, 2006

14 pages

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BROWN-HET-1455

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Abstract:

By means of an analogy with Classical Mechanics and Geometrical Optics, we are able to reduce Lagrangians to a kinetic term only. This form enables us to examine the extended solution set of field theories by finding the geodesics of this kinetic term's metric. This new geometrical standpoint sheds light on some foundational issues of QFT and brings to the forefront core aspects of field theory.

optics: geometrical
mechanics: classical
symmetry breaking
field theory: scalar
geodesic
topology: effect
Landau-Ginzburg model
Seiberg-Witten model
numerical calculations

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