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The Light-Cone Field Theory Paradigm for Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In the first part of this lecture I will give an introduction to light-cone field theory, focussing on the ``zero mode problem''. In the second part I discuss ϕ4\phi^4-theory in 1+1 dimensions. I will show how the dynamics of the zero modes can give rise to spontaneous symmetry breaking in spite of the trivial vacuum structure on the light-cone.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9405091,
  title  = {The Light-Cone Field Theory Paradigm for Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking},
  author = {Stephen Pinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9405091},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

17 pages Talk given at Hadron Structure '93, Banska Strianvnica Slovakia, September 5-10, 1993 based on Notes by Oliver Schnetz and Klaus Lucke, Institut f\"ur theoretische Physik III, Erlangen of lectures presented to the Graduiertenkoleg Erlangen-Regensburg on May 26, 1993