Non-amenability and spontaneous symmetry breaking -- the hyperbolic spin-chain (Q2580950)
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Non-amenability and spontaneous symmetry breaking -- the hyperbolic spin-chain (English)
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10 January 2006
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking is typically studied in the case where the symmetry group is amenable. The authors employ the hyperbolic spin chain to study this phenomenon for non-amenable groups, which in the case considered is SO(1,2).
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non-amenability
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spontaneous symmetry breaking
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Lie group
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Osterwalder-Schrader reconstruction
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