Vector Manifestation of Chiral Symmetry

Abstract

In this talk I summarize main features of the vector manifestation (VM) which was recently proposed as a novel manifestation of the Wigner realization of chiral symmetry in which the symmetry is restored at the critical point by the massless degenerate pion (and its flavor partners) and the rho meson (and its flavor partners) as the chiral partner. I show how the VM is formulated in the effective field theory of QCD based on the hidden local symmetry and realized in the large flavor QCD as well as in hot and/or dense QCD.

15 pages, Talk given at 2002 International Workshop on ``Strong Coupling Gauge Theories and Effective Field Theories'' (SCGT02), December 10-13, 2002