Spontaneous Breaking of Space-Time Symmetries
Eliezer Rabinovici
TL;DR
This paper discusses mechanisms for spontaneous breaking of various space-time symmetries and explores their implications in areas like solidification, string theory, and supersymmetry.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of both kinematical and dynamical mechanisms for symmetry breaking in space-time, with diverse applications.
Findings
Symmetry breaking mechanisms affect translations, rotations, and conformal transformations.
Applications include solidification, string compactifications, and supersymmetry breaking.
Insights into vacuum energy and stable theories without ground states.
Abstract
Kinematical and dynamical mechanisms leading to the spontaneous breaking of space-time symmetries are described. The symmetries affected are space and time translations, space rotations, scale and conformal transformations. Applications are made to solidification, string theory compactifications, the analysis of stable theories with no ground states, supersymmetry breaking and the determination of the value of the vacuum energy.
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Taxonomy
TopicsCosmology and Gravitation Theories · Black Holes and Theoretical Physics · Relativity and Gravitational Theory