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Solitons and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in 2 and 4 Dimensions

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Confinement, Topology, and Other Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((NAII,volume 83))

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We show that mass generation in 1+1 and 3+1 dimensions may occur together with spontaneous symmetry breaking.

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  1. Atominstitut der österreichischen Universitäten, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10, A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    Manfried Faber & Joachim Wabnig

  2. Department of Nuclear Physics, State Technical University, 195251 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

    Andrei N. Ivanov

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  1. Manfried Faber
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  1. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Jeff Greensite

  2. Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Štefan Olejník

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Faber, M., Wabnig, J., Ivanov, A.N. (2002). Solitons and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in 2 and 4 Dimensions. In: Greensite, J., Olejník, Š. (eds) Confinement, Topology, and Other Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD. NATO Science Series, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0502-9_14

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