Emergent Gauge Symmetries in Particle Physics and Cosmology

arXiv:2606.19403 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-06-17 · Read on arXiv

Steven D. Bass

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-06-17

Comments: Lectures presented at the 65. Jubilee Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, Zakopane, June 14-21 2025. 40 pages, to appear in Acta Physica Polonica B

Journal ref: Acta Phys.Polon.B 57 (2026) 4, 4-A7

DOI: 10.5506/APhysPolB.57.4-A7

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Standard Model — 34× in this paper
• Hubbard Model — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Entanglement — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Topological Order — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Equation of State (EoS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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