On the nature of the and from their behavior in chiral dynamics

We study the behavior with the number of colors (N_c) of the Λ(1405) and Λ(1670) resonances obtained dynamically within the chiral unitary approach. The leading order meson–baryon interaction, used as the kernel of the unitarization procedure, manifests a nontrivial N_c dependence of the flavor SU(3) representation for baryons. As a consequence, the SU(3) singlet (or ) component of the Λ(1405) states remains bound in the large N_c limit, while the other components dissolve into the continuum. Introducing explicit SU(3) breaking, we obtain the N_c dependence of the excitation energy, masses and widths of the physical Λ(1405) and Λ(1670) resonances. The N_c behavior of the decay widths is found to be different from the general counting rule for a qqq state, indicating the dynamical origin of these resonances.