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The proof of the Higgs mechanism in a weakly coupled lattice gauge theory in \(d \geqslant 2\) is revisited. A new power series cluster expansion is applied, and the mass gap is shown to exist for the observable \(F_{\mu \nu }\).
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Goswami, A. Mass Gap in Weakly Coupled Abelian Higgs on a Unit Lattice. Ann. Henri Poincaré 20, 3955–3996 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-019-00840-0
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