Abstract
We discuss the role of the Zweig rule (ZR) violation in the scalar channel for the determination of low-energy constants and condensates arising in the effective chiral lagrangian of QCD. The analysis of the Goldstone boson masses and decay constants shows that the three-flavor condensate and some low-energy constants are very sensitive to the value of the ZR violating constant L6. A similar study is performed in the case of the decay constants. A chiral sum rule based on experimental data in the 0++ channel is used to constrain L6, indicating a significant decrease between the two- and the three-flavor condensates. The analysis of the scalar form factors of the pion at zero momentum suggests that the pseudoscalar decay constant could also be suppressed from Nf = 2 to 3.
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