ar X iv : h ep - l at / 9 50 70 22 v 1 2 6 Ju l 1 99 5 1 Abelian dominance in chiral symmetry breaking ∗

Calculations of the chiral condensate 〈ψ̄ψ〉 on the lattice using staggered fermions and the Lanczos algorithm are presented. Three gauge fields are considered: the quenched non-Abelian field, the Abelian field projected in the maximal Abelian gauge, and the monopole field further decomposed from the Abelian field. The results show that the Abelian monopoles largely reproduce the chiral condensate values of the full non-Abelian theory, both in SU(2) and in SU(3).