We analyze the 1 + 1 dimensional Nambu–Jona–Lasinio model non-perturbatively. We study non-trivial saddle points of the effective action in which the composite fields [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] form static space dependent configurations. These configurations may be viewed as one dimensional chiral bags that trap the original fermions ("quarks") into stable extended entities ("hadrons"). We provide explicit expressions for the profiles of some of these objects and calculate their masses. Our analysis of these saddle points, and in particular, the proof that the σ(x), π(x) condensations must give rise to a reflectionless Dirac operator, appear to us simpler and more direct than the calculations previously done by Shei, using the inverse scattering method following Dashen, Hasslacher, and Neveu.
Dynamical generation of extended objects in a(1+1)-dimensional chiral field theory: Nonperturbative Dirac operator resolvent analysis