title: Parity doubling and SU(2)LxSU(2)R restoration in the hadron spectrum.
abstract: We construct the most general nonlinear representation of chiral SU(2)LxSU(2)R broken down spontaneously to the isospin SU(2), on a pair of hadrons of same spin and isospin and opposite parity. We show that any such representation is equivalent, through a hadron field transformation, to two irreducible representations on two hadrons of opposite parity with different masses and axial-vector couplings. This implies that chiral symmetry realized in the Nambu-Goldstone mode does not predict the existence of degenerate multiplets of hadrons of opposite parity nor any relations between their couplings or masses.
authors.affiliation: Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Jaffe
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pirjol
authors.forename: Antonello
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scardicchio