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Renormalizability and Unitarity of the Englert–Broute–Higgs–Kibble Model

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We show that the Englert–Broute–Higgs–Kibble model is renormalizable and unitary.

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This research is supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (Project No. 14-50-00005).

Prepared from an English manuscript submitted by the author; for the Russian version, see Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 197, No. 2, pp. 252–256, November, 2018.

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Slavnov, A.A. Renormalizability and Unitarity of the Englert–Broute–Higgs–Kibble Model. Theor Math Phys 197, 1611–1614 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040577918110041

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