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These notes essentially reproduce lectures given at the International School for Advanced Studies (Trieste) and at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) on various occasions. The scope of the short series of lectures, typically a fraction of a one-semester course, was to explain on general grounds, also to mathematicians, the phenomenon of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB), a mechanism which seems at the basis of most of the recent developments in theoretical physics (from Statistical Mechanics to Many-Body theory and to Elementary Particle theory).
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Strocchi, F. Introduction to Part I. In: Symmetry Breaking. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 643. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10981788_1
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