Fermion systems in discrete space-time -- outer symmetries and spontaneous symmetry breaking

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2007.V11.N1.A3MaRDI QIDQ2467643zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Felix Finster

Publication date 28 January 2008

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0601039

zbMATH Keywords

spontaneous symmetry breakingdiscrete fermion systemouter symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

Abstract: A systematic procedure is developed for constructing fermion systems in discrete space-time which have a given outer symmetry. The construction is illustrated by simple examples. For the symmetric group, we derive constraints for the number of particles. In the physically interesting case of many particles and even more space-time points, this result shows that the permutation symmetry of discrete space-time is always spontaneously broken by the fermionic projector.

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