Under the spell of chiral symmetry

Vicente Vento

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Under the spell of chiral symmetry

Vicente Vento

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In this reflection, I want to look back over more than thirty years, from 1978 to 2008, of my professional and personal relationship with Mannque Rho. I will briefly describe some of the original ideas that emerged from our collaboration: the Little Bag, the Cheshire Cat principle, and Skyrmion matter. I do not intend to be exhaustive, neither in content nor in references, which can be found in our published works. Instead, I want to retrace the path we took together through physics, accompanied by many good friends.

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Vicente Vento. 2026-10-01. Under the spell of chiral symmetry. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02336

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