%0 Journal Article %T Relating the pion decay constant to the chiral restoration temperature %A N. Bili£¿ %A J. Cleymans %A M. D. Scadron %J Physics %D 1994 %I arXiv %R 10.1142/S0217751X95000553 %X We review the relationship between the pion decay constant $f_\pi$, the chiral symmetry restoration temperature $T_c$ and the phenomenology of low energy chiral symmetry breaking in view of the recent confirmation of the existence of a sigma meson with a mass of 600-700 MeV. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9402201v2