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Why do the conserved charges in the case of SSB of a global symmetry the conserved charges do not exist?

Through the reading of this paperReading (http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2441"From Linear SUSY to Constrained Superfields") by Komargodski and Seiberg, I got a bit confused regarding the existence of the conserved charges in a theory with SSBspontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of a global symmetry.:

More precisely, in the previous to lastsecond-to-last paragraph on page 1 we have "when a global symmetry is spontaneously broken, the corresponding conserved charge does not exist because its correlation functions are IR divergent. However the conserved current and even the commutators with the conserved charge do exist." I

"When a global symmetry is spontaneously broken, the corresponding conserved charge does not exist because its correlation functions are IR divergent. However the conserved current and even the commutators with the conserved charge do exist."

I know that in the case of global SSB: we have $Q|0\rangle\neq0$ for the conserved charge $Q$. However, I cannotdon't have any insight about the correlation functions... Could anyhowsomehow $Q|0\rangle\neq0$ imply something like $||Q|0\rangle||=\infty$ or $\langle Q\rangle\rightarrow\infty$..? And how could one see that..? Sorry for the long post, I eould extremely appreciate your help.

Why in the case of SSB of a global symmetry the conserved charges do not exist?

Through the reading of this paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2441), I got a bit confused regarding the existence of the conserved charges in a theory with SSB of a global symmetry. More precisely, in the previous to last paragraph we have "when a global symmetry is spontaneously broken, the corresponding conserved charge does not exist because its correlation functions are IR divergent. However the conserved current and even the commutators with the conserved charge do exist." I know that in the case of global SSB: $Q|0\rangle\neq0$. However, I cannot have any insight about the correlation functions... Could anyhow $Q|0\rangle\neq0$ imply something like $||Q|0\rangle||=\infty$ or $\langle Q\rangle\rightarrow\infty$..? And how could one see that..? Sorry for the long post, I eould extremely appreciate your help.

Why do the conserved charges in the case of SSB of a global symmetry not exist?

Reading "From Linear SUSY to Constrained Superfields" by Komargodski and Seiberg, I got a bit confused regarding the existence of the conserved charges in a theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of a global symmetry:

More precisely, in the second-to-last paragraph on page 1 we have

"When a global symmetry is spontaneously broken, the corresponding conserved charge does not exist because its correlation functions are IR divergent. However the conserved current and even the commutators with the conserved charge do exist."

I know that in the case of global SSB we have $Q|0\rangle\neq0$ for the conserved charge $Q$. However, I don't have any insight about the correlation functions. Could somehow $Q|0\rangle\neq0$ imply something like $||Q|0\rangle||=\infty$ or $\langle Q\rangle\rightarrow\infty$? And how could one see that?

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Why in the case of SSB of a global symmetry the conserved charges do not exist..?

Through the reading of this paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.2441v3.pdfhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2441), I got a bit confused regarding the existence of the conserved charges in a theory with SSB of a global symmetry. More presicelyprecisely, in the previous to last paragraph we have "when a global symmetry is spontaneously broken, the corresponding conserved charge does not exist because its correlation functions are IR divergent. However the conserved current and even the commutators with the conserved charge do exist." I know that in the case of global SSB: $Q|0\rangle\neq0$. However, I cannot have any insight about the correlation functions... Could anyhow $Q|0\rangle\neq0$ imply something like $||Q|0\rangle||=\infty$ or $\langle Q\rangle\rightarrow\infty$..? And how could one see that..? Sorry for the long post, I eould extremely appreciate your help.

Why in the case of SSB of a global symmetry the conserved charges do not exist..?

Through the reading of this paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.2441v3.pdf), I got a bit confused regarding the existence of the conserved charges in a theory with SSB of a global symmetry. More presicely, in the previous to last paragraph we have "when a global symmetry is spontaneously broken, the corresponding conserved charge does not exist because its correlation functions are IR divergent. However the conserved current and even the commutators with the conserved charge do exist." I know that in the case of global SSB: $Q|0\rangle\neq0$. However, I cannot have any insight about the correlation functions... Could anyhow $Q|0\rangle\neq0$ imply something like $||Q|0\rangle||=\infty$ or $\langle Q\rangle\rightarrow\infty$..? And how could one see that..? Sorry for the long post, I eould extremely appreciate your help.

Why in the case of SSB of a global symmetry the conserved charges do not exist?

Through the reading of this paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.2441), I got a bit confused regarding the existence of the conserved charges in a theory with SSB of a global symmetry. More precisely, in the previous to last paragraph we have "when a global symmetry is spontaneously broken, the corresponding conserved charge does not exist because its correlation functions are IR divergent. However the conserved current and even the commutators with the conserved charge do exist." I know that in the case of global SSB: $Q|0\rangle\neq0$. However, I cannot have any insight about the correlation functions... Could anyhow $Q|0\rangle\neq0$ imply something like $||Q|0\rangle||=\infty$ or $\langle Q\rangle\rightarrow\infty$..? And how could one see that..? Sorry for the long post, I eould extremely appreciate your help.

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Why in the case of SSB of a global symmetry the conserved charges do not exist..?

Through the reading of this paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.2441v3.pdf), I got a bit confused regarding the existence of the conserved charges in a theory with SSB of a global symmetry. More presicely, in the previous to last paragraph we have "when a global symmetry is spontaneously broken, the corresponding conserved charge does not exist because its correlation functions are IR divergent. However the conserved current and even the commutators with the conserved charge do exist." I know that in the case of global SSB: $Q|0\rangle\neq0$. However, I cannot have any insight about the correlation functions... Could anyhow $Q|0\rangle\neq0$ imply something like $||Q|0\rangle||=\infty$ or $\langle Q\rangle\rightarrow\infty$..? And how could one see that..? Sorry for the long post, I eould extremely appreciate your help.