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Symmetry and emergence
Nature Physics 14(2): 116-119
Article
2018
English
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Edward Witten
Institute For Advanced Study
Abstract
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In a modern understanding of particle physics, global symmetries are approximate and gauge symmetries may be emergent. This view, which has echoes in condensed-matter physics, is supported by a variety of arguments from experiment and theory.
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