Abstract
It is shown that spontaneous breaking of O(2) symmetry in a background metric of constant curvature R is accompanied by appearance of a Goldstone mode with mass squared of - 1 2R. If the gravitational field is coupled dynamically, the situation is quite similar and when spontaneous breaking of the O(2) symmetry takes place, a massive Goldstone mode appears in the antide Sitter background. A modified lagrangian yields a massless Goldstone mode and a flat background. If the O(2) symmetry is promoted to be local, the Higgs mechanism is responsible for the scalar and gauge field masses which include gravitational contributions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 739-747 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Nuclear Physics B |
| Volume | 272 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
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| State | Published - 4 Aug 1986 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:* Supported in part by the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation. * We use the conventions: R = g~R"~,,,~, R~x~,~= O~F~x .... and also use ~ for Newton's constant 8';"r/m2 p lanck.