1998/12/21 by C. P. Burgess, Burgess, C. P.
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15 pages, LaTeX, one figure included with epsf. A brief summary of lectures given to NUSS98, Seoul National University, June 1998. Resubmitted with minor typos fixed, a reference added and a quote re-attributed
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These lectures are an extremely condensed version of the theory of Goldstone bosons, with general features illustrated using a simple model. A more comprehensive version of these lectures, which includes a general discussion of effective theories of Goldstone bosons, including applications to the low-energy behaviour of pions, spin waves (in antiferromagnets and ferromagnets), and to the SO(5) proposal for high-Tc superconductors may be found in hep-th/9808176.