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Chiral symmetry breaking in quantum electrodynamics and quantum chromodynamics is considered as a problem in bifurcation theory. Inequalities and positivity play key rôles, as they do in much of the work of André Martin.
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Atkinson, D. (1990). Bifurcation theory applied to chiral symmetry breaking. In: Ciulli, S., Scheck, F., Thirring, W. (eds) Rigorous Methods in Particle Physics. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 119. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0117561
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