Abstract
It is argued that a spontaneous breaking of local symmetry for a symmetrical gauge theory without gauge fixing is impossible. The argument is demonstrated in a simple system of Abelian gauge fields on a lattice.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3978-3982 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1975 |
| Externally published | Yes |