Solution

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The condensate transforms as , so its value proportional to the identity produces chiral symmetry breaking
The vacuum manifold is the coset and has three Goldstone modes. A field transforms as . Lorentz invariance and chiral symmetry leave, at two-derivative order, one invariant metric on this coset, so
Since the Lagrangian density has dimension four and is dimensionless, the pion decay constant has mass dimension one.

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