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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 305 1 Solution by
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A global symmetry is spontaneously broken when it preserves the action but does not preserve a chosen ground state. If is broken to the stabilizer , the degenerate vacua form a vacuum manifold . The Goldstone theorem states that a relativistic theory has one massless scalar mode for each broken continuous internal generator, so the standard counting gives Goldstone bosons.
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