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Edward Witten
Institute for Advanced Study
Chiral symmetry breakdown in large-N QCD
Article
1980
English
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Edward Witten
Institute For Advanced Study
Abstract
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Chromodynamics with n flavors of massless quarks is invariant under chiral U(n) × U(n). We show that in the limit of large number of colors, under reasonable assumptions, this symmetry group must spontaneously break down to diagonal U(n).
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