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An Extension of Goldstone Theorem to Non-symmetric Hamiltonians

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The Goldstone theorem and its rigorous predictions on the energy spectrum at zero momentum can be extended184 to the case in which the Hamiltonian H is not symmetric, but it has simple transformation properties, in the sense that the multiple commutators of H and the charge Q generate a finite dimensional Lie algebra, briefly

$$ \left[ {Q^i ,H} \right] = c_k^i Q^k . $$

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Strocchi, F. (2008). An Extension of Goldstone Theorem to Non-symmetric Hamiltonians. In: Symmetry Breaking. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 732. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73593-9_28

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