Spontaneous symmetry breaking in pure 2D Yang-Mills theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-05-28 v3
Abstract
We consider purely topological d Yang-Mills theory on a torus with the second Stiefel-Whitney class added to the Lagrangian in the form of a -term. It will be shown, that at there exists a class of () gauge theories with a two-fold degenerate vacuum, which spontaneously breaks the time reversal and charge conjugation symmetries. The corresponding order parameter is given by the generator of the one-form symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.1911.03494,
title = {Spontaneous symmetry breaking in pure 2D Yang-Mills theory},
author = {Gleb Aminov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.03494},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
The ambiguity between the second Stiefel-Whitney class $w_2$ and an invariant of $PSU(N)$ bundles $u_2$ was removed. Conclusion section and more references were added in version 3