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The patterns of symmetry breaking in the gauge theories are investigated systematically in the general rotation groups and unitary groups, with Higgs scalars in the various representations up to second-rank tensors. The occurrences of the fermion mass relations and pseudo-Goldstone bosons are also discussed in various cases.
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