't Hooft determinant: Fluctuatioins and Multiple Vacua
Abstract
The 't Hooft six quark flavor mixing interaction (Nf=3) is bosonized by the path integral method. The considered complete Lagrangian is constructed on the basis of the combined 't Hooft and U(3)X U(3) extended chiral four fermion Nambu -- Jona-Lasinio interactions. The method of the steepest descents is used to derive the effective mesonic Lagrangian. Additionally to the known lowest order stationary phase (SP) result of Reinhardt and Alkofer we obtain the contribution from the small quantum fluctuations of bosonic configurations around their stationary phase trajectories. Fluctuations give rise to multivalued solutions of the gap equations, marked at instances by drastic changes in the quark condensates, a novel scenario for the vacuum state of hadrons at low energies.
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