Description of hot compressed hadronic matter based on an effective chiral lagrangian

Abstract

A review of the recent results obtained in the Nambu -- Jona-Lasinio model is given. In particular, the effect of screening of meson fields at finite temperature or density is analyzed and the formulation of a chirally invariant transport theory for quark matter is presented.

Comments: 128 pages (35 figures), Latex, uses psfig