Spontaneous breaking of topological symmetry.

Summary

It is shown that, in the presence of Gribov zero modes, topological theories without smeared terms, which are inequivalent to theories with smearing terms, permit spontaneous symmetry breaking.

Keywords

Spontaneous symmetry breaking, Symmetry breaking, Physics, Explicit symmetry breaking, Chiral symmetry breaking

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