BFKL eigenvalue and maximal alternation of harmonic sums

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2019.114734zbMATH Open1435.81229arXiv1901.05248OpenAlexW2909189679WikidataQ127354473 ScholiaQ127354473MaRDI QIDQ2186342FDOQ2186342

Alex Prygarin

Publication date: 9 June 2020

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze the known results for the eigenvalue of the Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov (BFKL) equation in the perturbative regime using the analytic continuation of harmonic sums from even positive arguments to the complex plane. The resulting meromorphic functions have poles at negative integer values of the argument. The typical classification of harmonic sums is determined by two major parameters: $a)$ the extit{weight} - a sum of inverse powers of the summation indices; $b)$ the extit{depth} - a number of nested summations. We introduce the third parameter: the extit{alternation} - a number of nested sign-alternating summations in a given harmonic sum. We claim that the maximal alternation of the nested summation in the functions building the BFKL eigenvalue is preserved from loop to loop in the perturbative expansion. The BFKL equation is formulated for arbitrary color configuration of the propagating states in the $t$-channel. Based on known results one can state that color adjoint BFKL eigenvalue be can written using only harmonic sums with positive indices, maximal alternation zero, and at most depth one, whereas the singlet BFKL eigenvalue is constructed of harmonic sums with maximal sign alternation being equal one. We also note that for maximal alternation being equal unity the harmonic sums can be expressed through alternation zero harmonic sums with half-shifted arguments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05248

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional equations in the complex plane, iteration and composition of analytic functions of one complex variable (30D05) General harmonic expansions, frames (42C15) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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Cited In (2)

• Pole decomposition of BFKL eigenvalue at zero conformal spin and the real part of digamma function
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Uses Software

• HarmonicSums

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