In this work we investigate the chiral symmetry breaking in the q-deformed
version of the NJL model and its consequent mass generation mechanism. We s
how that the deformation of the NJL model, in the mean field approximation,
may take into account correlations that go beyond the mean field and, in a
certain limit, approaches the more realistic lattice calculations. (C) 200
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