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Electroweak symmetry breaking in other terms

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We analyse descriptions of electroweak symmetry breaking in terms of ultralocal antisymmetric tensor fields and gauge-singlet geometric variables, respectively; in particular, the Weinberg–Salam model and, ultimately, dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking by technicolour theories with enhanced symmetry groups. Our motivation is to unveil the manifestly gauge-invariant structure of the different realisations. We find, for example, parallels to different types of torsion.

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Dietrich, D.D. Electroweak symmetry breaking in other terms. Eur. Phys. J. C 67, 237–252 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1263-0

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