Chiral-symmetry breakdown in large-N chromodynamics

Sidney Coleman; Edward Witten

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.100

Chiral-symmetry breakdown in large-N chromodynamics

Sidney Coleman, Edward Witten

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Chromodynamics with n flavors of massless quarks is invariant under chiral U(n)U(n). It is shown that in the limit of a large number of colors, under reasonable assumptions, this symmetry group must spontaneously break down to diagonal U(n).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	100-102
Number of pages	3
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	45
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.100
State	Published - 1980
Externally published	Yes

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General Physics and Astronomy

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