Spontaneous symmetry breaking of affine
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A. C. Cadavid; R. J. Finkelstein
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Article
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1989
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Springer
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English
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It is possible to construct non-Abelian field theories by gauging Kac-Moody algebras. Here we discuss the spontaneous symmetry breaking of such theories via the Higgs mechanism. If the Higgs particle lies in the Cartan subalgebra of the Kac-Moody algebra, the previously massless vectors acquire a ma