Broken Symmetries

Jeffrey Goldstone, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg

Physical Review · 1962 · 1.6K citations · 3 references

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Abstract

Some proofs are presented of Goldstone's conjecture, that if there is continuous symmetry transformation under which the Lagrangian is invariant, then either the vacuum state is also invariant under the transformation, or there must exist spinless particles of zero mass.

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