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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| 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 |
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| Depositing User: | Elena Castellani | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2002 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:11 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 927 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics |
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| Date: | 2002 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/927 |
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