TY - JOUR
T1 - Mass and scattering length inequalities in QCD and QCD-like theories
AU - Nussinov, S.
AU - Sathiapalan, B.
N1 - Funding Information:
is also grateful to J. Sucher for useful discussions. This work was supported in part by the DOE under Contract No. Ey-76-C-02-3071.
PY - 1985
Y1 - 1985
N2 - Some observations about mass and scattering length inequalities in QCD-like theories are presented. It is shown that the Weingarten mass inequality can be used to argue that global vector symmetries are unbroken in such theories. For QCD, in the limit Nc→ ∞, it is shown that Mbaryon≥ 1 2NcMmeson, provided there are at least Nc degenerate flavors of quarks. It is argued that when there are no bound states in a scattering channel, the mass inequalities can be used to derive inequalities between scattering lengths. Some rigorous inequalities for two and higher point functions for operators bilinear in currents are derived, and used to extract inequalities between quartic coupling constants.
AB - Some observations about mass and scattering length inequalities in QCD-like theories are presented. It is shown that the Weingarten mass inequality can be used to argue that global vector symmetries are unbroken in such theories. For QCD, in the limit Nc→ ∞, it is shown that Mbaryon≥ 1 2NcMmeson, provided there are at least Nc degenerate flavors of quarks. It is argued that when there are no bound states in a scattering channel, the mass inequalities can be used to derive inequalities between scattering lengths. Some rigorous inequalities for two and higher point functions for operators bilinear in currents are derived, and used to extract inequalities between quartic coupling constants.
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(85)90395-5
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(85)90395-5
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AN - SCOPUS:0008857917
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 256
SP - 285
EP - 298
JO - Nuclear Physics, Section B
JF - Nuclear Physics, Section B
IS - C
ER -