How is spontaneous symmetry breaking possible? Understanding Wigner's theorem in light of unitary inequivalence

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2013.09.005zbMath1281.81046arXiv1103.3227OpenAlexW2022034348MaRDI QIDQ2436284

Hans Halvorson, David John Baker

Publication date: 21 February 2014

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3227

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryspontaneous symmetry breakingWigner's theoreminequivalent representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Physics (00A79)

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