Progress on chiral symmetry breaking in a strong magnetic field

Abstract

The problem of chiral symmetry breaking in QED in a strong magnetic field is briefly reviewed. Recent progress on issues regarding the gauge fixing independence of the dynamically generated fermion mass is discussed.

Comments: 7 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of International Workshop on Origin of Mass and Strong Coupling Gauge Theories (SCGT 06), Nagoya, Japan, 21-24 November 2006