IS THE CRONIN’S REPRESENTATION CORRECT FOR THE PENGUIN OPERATOR?
It is shown that the Cronin’s operator, being used for a phenomenological description of non-loptonic K-meson decays within the effective chiral Lagrangian approach with non-linear realization of chiral SU (3)× SU (3) symmetry (so-called, chiral perturbation theory at the hadronic level), cannot be applied to the determination of the Penguin-operator (O5-operator) at the hadronic level. The affirmation is based on the proof of the violation of the low-energy theorem [Formula: see text] which is valid within the framework of the Cronin’s representation. The violation of this low-energy theorem is obtained at the quark level and connected with the account of the low-energy interactions of pions caused by the overlap of wave functions of pions in the |π+π−> state in the low-energy limit p+→0. The chiral transformation properties of the normal-ordered Penguin operator are studied.