CONSTITUENT QUARK COUPLINGS AND QCD IN THE LARGE N(C) LIMIT

It is shown that in the constituent quark model of Georgi-Manohar, the dispersion relation that leads to the Adler-Weisberger sum rule for t he axial vector coupling g(A) requires a subtraction constant. This fa ct explains the discrepancy between the results of different recent es timates of the 1/N(c) corrections to Weinberg's large N(c) result g(A) = 1, where N(c) is the number of QCD colours. We also discuss a possi ble scenario which shows that g(A) = 1 might not be a necessary conseq uence of QCD in the large N(c) limit.