2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/188218It is shown that eight-quark interactions, which are needed to stabilize the ground state of the combined three flavor Nambu -- Jona-Lasinio and 't Hooft Lagrangians, play also an important role in determining the critical temperature at which transitions occur from the dynamically broken chiral phase to the symmetric phase.4 pages, 2 figuresHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext