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Spontaneous Breaking of Space—Time Symmetries

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Kinematical and dynamical mechanisms leading to the spontaneous breaking of space–time symmetries are described. The symmetries affected are space and time translations, space rotations, scale and conformal transformations. Applications are made to solidification, string theory compactifications, the analysis of stable theories with no ground states, supersymmetry breaking and the determination of the value of the vacuum energy.

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  1. Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israelel, 91904 Jerusalem

    E. Rabinovici

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, Via G. Amendola,173, 70126 Bari, Italy

    Maurizio Gasperini

  2. Sachivalaya Marg, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar - 751005, Orissa, India

    Jnan Maharana

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Rabinovici, E. (2008). Spontaneous Breaking of Space—Time Symmetries. In: Gasperini, M., Maharana, J. (eds) String Theory and Fundamental Interactions. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 737. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74233-3_19

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