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Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 1451–1454 (1992)

Spontaneous breaking of topological symmetry

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Weidong Zhao and H. C. Lee
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9
Theoretical Physics Branch, Chalk River Laboratories, AECL Research, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada K0J 1J0

Received 28 June 1991; published in the issue dated 9 March 1992

The spontaneous breaking of topological symmetry induced by a vanishingly small symmetry breaking term is investigated. It is shown that, in the presence of Gribov zero modes, topological theories without smearing terms, which are inequivalent to theories with smearing terms, permit spontaneous symmetry breaking. The relation with reducible configurations is briefly discussed.

© 1992 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.1451
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.1451
PACS:
11.30.Qc, 02.40.+m
 
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