Spontaneous breaking of space-time symmetries

Eliezer Rabinovici*

*Corresponding author for this work

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationString Theory and Fundamental Interactions
Subtitle of host publicationGabriele Veneziano and Theoretical Physics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
EditorsMaurizio Gasperini, Jnan Maharana
Pages573-605
Number of pages33
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Physics
Volume737
ISSN (Print)0075-8450

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