We derive an effective action combining chiral and heavy-quark symmetry, using approximate bosonization techniques to QCD-inspired models of spontaneous symmetry breaking. We explicitly show that the heavy-quark limit is compatible with the large $N_c$ (number of color) limit in the meson sector, and estimate the couplings between the light and heavy mesons ($D, D^{*}, \dots$) and their chiral partners to order one in the heavy-quark mass. The relevance of this effective action to solitons with heavy quarks is briefly discussed.

• Received 10 May 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.48.4370