Spontaneous breaking of continuous rotational symmetry in two dimensions

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 14, Issue , 2009, Pages 1705-1726

  Merkl, Franz ^a   Rolles, Silke W W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuous symmetry; Gibbs measure; Rotation; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349445210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v14-671     Document Type: Article

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