SYMMETRY-BREAKING IN THE SCHRODINGER REPRESENTATION FOR CHERN-SIMONS THEORIES

被引:8
作者
DUNNE, G
机构
[1] Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1994年 / 50卷 / 08期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.50.5321
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
This paper discusses the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Schrodinger representation formulation of quantum field theory. The analysis is presented for three-dimensional space-time Abelian gauge theories with either Maxwell, Maxwell-Chern-Simons, or pure Chern-Simons terms as the gauge field contribution to the action, each of which leads to a different form of mass generation for the gauge fields.
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页码:5321 / 5328
页数:8
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