Low-energy limit of Yang–Mills with massless adjoint quarks: chiral Lagrangian and Skyrmions

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/23/015zbMATH Open1113.81129arXivhep-th/0612211OpenAlexW2091612647MaRDI QIDQ5292559FDOQ5292559

Authors: Roberto Auzzi, M. A. Shifman 

Publication date: 21 June 2007

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If the fundamental quarks of QCD are replaced by massless adjoint quarks, the pattern of the chiral symmetry breaking drastically changes compared to the standard one. It becomes SU(N_f) -> SO(N_f). While for N_f=2 the chiral Lagrangian describing the 'pion" dynamics is well-known, this is not the case at N_f>2. We outline a general strategy for deriving chiral Lagrangians for the coset spaces M_k=SU(k)/SO(k), and study in detail the case of N_f=k=3. We obtain two- and four-derivatives terms in the chiral Lagrangian on the coset space M_3 = SU(3)/SO(3), as well as the Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten term, in terms of an explicit parameterization of the quotient manifold. Then we discuss stable topological solitons supported by this Lagrangian. Aspects of relevant topological considerations scattered in the literature are reviewed. The same analysis applies to SO(N) gauge theories with N_f Weyl flavors in the vector representation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612211

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Soliton equations (35Q51) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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