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On vector Goldstone boson

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The possibility that higher dimensional field theories are broken spontaneously, through the usual Nambu-Goldstone mechanism, to 4-dimension is explored. As a consequence, vector Goldstone bosons can arise in this breaking of Lorentzian symmetry from higher dimension to 4-dimension. This can provide a simple mechanism for reduction to 4-dimension in theories with extra dimensions.

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  1. Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA , , , , , , US

    L.-F. Li

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Received: 3 January 2002 / Published online: 14 March 2003

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Li, LF. On vector Goldstone boson. Eur. Phys. J. C 28, 145–146 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2003-01177-5

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