Vector Manifestation in Hot and/or Dense Matter

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 realized in hot and dense QCD using the effective field theory of QCD based on the hidden local symmetry.Comment: Talk given at YITP-RCNP Workshop ``Chiral Restoration in Nuclear Medium'' (October 7-9,2002). 12 pages, PTPTe