SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN LORENTZ INVARIANCE IN 3-DIMENSIONAL GAUGE-THEORIES

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HOSOTANI, Y
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[1] School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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10.1016/0370-2693(93)90822-Y
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P1 [天文学];
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In a wide class of three-dimensional Abelian gauge theories with a bare Chern-Simons term, the Lorentz invariance is spontaneously broken by dynamical generation of a nonvanishing magnetic field. The originally massive photon becomes massless, fulfilling the role of a Nambu-Goldstone boson associated with the spontaneous breaking of the Lorentz invariance.
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