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Spontaneously Broken Lorentz Invariance in Three-Dimensional Gauge Theories

Yutaka Hosotani

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9308045

Abstract

In a wide class of three-dimensional Abelian gauge theories with a bare Chern-Simons term, the Lorentz invariance is spontaneously broken by dynamical generation of a non-vanishing magnetic field. A detailed computation of an energy density of the true vacuum is given. The originally massive photon becomes massless, fulfilling the role of a Nambu-Goldstone boson associated with the spontaneous breaking of the Lorentz invariance.

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