Solution

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As , the Matsubara sum becomes . Put and . The factors of cancel from both sides, leaving
Using four-dimensional spherical coordinates,
At the onset of spontaneous symmetry breaking, the symmetric-phase gap closes. Thus
For the constraint is instead satisfied by an ordered condensate; a positive symmetric gap exists for .
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