We consider a U(5)-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with flavor-dependent couplings constants obtained from quark-antiquark polarization to investigate the role of the heavy quarks for light constituent quarks and mesons. A quantum mixing, due to the different representations of the flavor group needed to defined quarks and mesons, lead to charm and beauty sea quark contributions to properties of the light quark sector. For a given fitting procedure for the parameters of the model, the charm and beauty quark effective masses are freely varied from very small values to very large values (infinite). The effect of these variations on pion and kaon observables, such as masses, weak decay constants and condensates, is calculated. Although the pion mass can vary (seemingly too much) up to 20% for a very large variation of heavy quark effective masses, their contributions for the kaon mass are at most of the order of 2% and all the other variables and observables, including up and down quark constituent masses, vary at most around 1%.
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