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It is shown that the Goldstone theorem is actually a special case of the Noether theorem in the presence of spontaneous symmetry breakdown, and is thus immediately valid for quantized as well as classical fields. The situation when gauge fields are introduced is discussed, emphasis being placed on some points that are not often discussed in the literature such as the compatibility of the Higgs mechanism and the Elitzur theorem and the extent to which the vacuum configuration is determined by the choice of gauge.
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O'Raifeartaigh, L. (1991). Some hidden aspects of hidden symmetry. In: Hennig, JD., Lücke, W., Tolar, J. (eds) Differential Geometry, Group Representations, and Quantization. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 379. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-53941-7_7
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