1998/10/09 by Norbert Straumann, Straumann, Norbert
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9810302
20 pages, 6 postscript figures included, uses AMS-TeX
arxiv created 1998/10/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Apart from a few remarks on lattice systems with global or gauge symmetries, most of this talk is devoted to some interesting ancient examples of symmetries and their breakdowns in elasticity theory and hydrodynamics. Since Galois Theory is in many ways the origin of group theory as a tool to analyse (hidden) symmetries, a brief review of this profound mathematical theory is also given.