Abstract
The Bethe-Salpeter equation for the pion in chiral symmetric models is studied with a special care to consistency with low-energy relations. We propose a reduction of the rainbow Schwinger-Dyson and the ladder Bethe-Salpeter equations with a dressed gluon propagator. We prove that the reduction preserves the Ward-Takahashi identity for the axial-vector current and the PCAC relation.
- Received 8 May 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.59.542
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