Chiral Perturbation Theory and Threshold Corrections

Abstract

I give a short overview of Chiral Perturbation Theory, its underlying assumptions and underpinnings. A few examples are included.

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, Talk presented at the MAX-lab Workshop on the Nuclear Physics Programme with Real Photons below 200 MeV, Lund, Sweden, March 10-12, 1997