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Chiral symmetry breaking by a non-Abelian external field in (2+1)-dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We investigate the effect of a constant external non-Abelian field on chiral symmetry breaking in a (2+1)-dimensional Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and in 3D QCD by solving the gap equation and the Bethe-Salpeter equation, and also by RG analysis. In the (2+1)-dimensional NJL model chiral symmetry breaking occurs for any weak coupling constant but in 3D QCD catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking does not occur.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9711016,
  title  = {Chiral symmetry breaking by a non-Abelian external field in (2+1)-dimensions},
  author = {V. P. Gusynin and D. K. Hong and I. A. Shovkovy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9711016},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, RevTeX