| Title: | SYMMETRY BREAKING IN STRING THEORY |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812702227_0280 |
| Source: | HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, ICHEP 2004 (pp 1347-1349)
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| Author(s): | IOANNIS GIANNAKIS
Physics Department Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
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| Abstract: | In this paper we discuss symmetry breaking in string theory. Spacetime symmetries are implemented as inner automorphisms of the underlying superconformal algebra. Conserved currents generate unbroken spacetime symmetries. As we deform the classical solutions of the string equations of motion, the deformed currents continue to generate spontaneously broken symmetries eventhough they cease to commute with the string Hamiltonian. |
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