Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-305/1/solution

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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