Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and optimal state description of hadron-hadron scattering (Q1066065)

Informations on the hadron-hadron scattering amplitude are obtained by using reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) methods. Then it was shown that RKHS is the adequate variational space for the description of scattering in terms of a minimum norm principle. The optimal states as solutions of the minimum norm problems are introduced and the essential characteristic features of the hadron-hadron scattering in the optimal state dominance limit are established. Then, it was pointed out that the optimal state from the RKHS of the scattering amplitudes is analogous to the coherent state from the RKHS of the wave functions. An important alternative to the partial wave analysis in terms of a fundamental set of optimal states is proposed. All these results are extended to the scattering of particles with arbitrary spins in the paper [\textit{D. S. Ion}, ibid. 24, 1233 (1985)].