Castellani, Elena (2002) On the meaning of symmetry breaking. [Preprint]
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This is the review paper for the section III ("Symmetry breaking") of the volume "Symmetries in physics: philosophical reflections", Cambridge University Press, 2003, edited by Katherine A. Brading and Elena Castellani. The paper's sections are: 1. Preliminaries (I); 2. Symmetry breaking and Curie's analysis; 3. Preliminaries (II); 4. Symmetry breaking of physical laws (4.1. Explicit symmetry breaking; 4.2. Spontaneous symmetry breaking); 5. Symmetry breaking and philosophical questions.
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| Item Type: | Preprint |
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| Keywords: | symmetry breaking, spontaneous symmetry breaking, Curie's principle |
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
| Conferences and Volumes: | [2001] Symmetries in Physics, New Reflections: Oxford Workshop (Oxford, January 2001) |
| Depositing User: | Elena Castellani |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2002 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 11:11 |
| Item ID: | 927 |
| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/927 |
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