Spontaneous symmetry breaking of affine field theory |
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| Authors: | A C Cadavid R J Finkelstein |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Physics, University of California, 90024 Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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| Abstract: | It is possible to construct non-Abelian field theories by gauging Kac-Moody algebras. Here we discuss the spontaneous symmetry breaking of such theories via the Higgs mechanism. If the Higgs particle lies in the Cartan subalgebra of the Kac-Moody algebra, the previously massless vectors acquire a mass spectrum that is linear in the Kac-Moody index and has additional fine structure depending on the associated Lie algebra. |
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| Keywords: | 17B67 81G20 |
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