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Apart from simple models, like those discussed in the previous section, the existence of a symmetry breaking order parameter is a non-trivial problem which in principle requires the control on the correlation functions. In this section we briefly discuss constructive criteria for symmetry breaking.
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Strocchi, F. 10 Constructive Symmetry Breaking. In: Symmetry Breaking. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 643. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10981788_22
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