Dual models and spontaneous symmetry breaking

1974
18 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 68 (1974) 331-348
  • Published: 1974

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The question of spontaneous symmetry breaking in dual models is investigated. In the context of a particular model with a conserved “charge”, two different approaches to the problem, spurion emission and the effective potential methods, are developed. A method is described for the calculation of the effective potential, and it is applied to determine the first few terms of the potential.
  • duality
  • symmetry: broken
  • model: spurion
  • model: effective potential
  • field theory: effective lagrangians