2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/198363We study the effect of modifying the coupling of Kogut-Susskind quarks to the gauge field by replacing the link matrix in the quark action by a "fat link", or sum of link plus three-link paths. Flavor symmetry breaking, determined by the mass difference between the Goldstone and non-Goldstone local pions, is reduced by approximately a factor of two by this modification.9 pages, 1 figure, uses epsf.styHigh Energy Physics - Latticetext