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Why does the breaking of a 'continuous' symmetry lead to gapless excitations but not that of a discrete symmetry?

Goldstone theorem, especially in the context of condensed matter physics, can be stated as: Whenever there is spontaneous breakdown of a continuous global symmetry, the spectrum of the theory ...
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