Comments on the absence of spontaneous symmetry breaking in low dimensions
- 15 March 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 11 (6) , 1701-1704
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.11.1701
Abstract
We present some comments intended to bring out simply and more explicitly the physics behind the rigorously proven results on the absence of continuous symmetry breaking in (1 + 1) dimensions at and (2 + 1) dimensions for . It is also pointed out within a model that a massless boson is present, in a sense defined in the text, even though symmetry breaking disappears.
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