Abstract
The description of baryons as chiral solitons of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model is reviewed. A motivation for the soliton description of baryons is provided from large NC QCD. Rigorous results on the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry in QCD are discussed. It is then argued that the NJL model provides a fair description of low-energy hadron physics. The NJL model is therefore employed to mimic the low-energy chiral flavor dynamics of QCD. The model is bosonized by functional integral techniques and the physical content of the emerging effective meson theory is discussed. In particular, its relation to the Skyrme model is established.
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