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On the Higgs-Confinement Complementarity

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-06-03 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

It has been noticed long ago that in Higgs models with `complete symmetry breaking' one can move from the confinement to the Higgs regime without crossing a phase boundary, a fact sometimes called referred to as `complementarity'. In a recent paper some doubt was raised about the correctness of the mathematics underlying this fact and it was claimed that the supposed `flaw' would resolve the `paradox' seen in this complementarity. Here we briefly revisit the facts both from a mathematical and a physical point of view and point out that (a) there is no paradox and (b) there is no flaw in the mathematical reasoning.

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@article{arxiv.1506.00862,
  title  = {On the Higgs-Confinement Complementarity},
  author = {Erhard Seiler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00862},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages

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