Chromodynamics with n flavors of massless quarks is invariant under chiral U(n)U(n). It is shown that in the limit of a large number of colors, under reasonable assumptions, this symmetry group must spontaneously break down to diagonal U(n).
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Coleman et al. (1980) studied this question.
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