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Reggeon field theory and self duality: making ends meet

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Motivated by the question of unitarity of Reggeon Field Theory, we use the effective field theory philosophy to find possible Reggeon Field Theory Hamiltonians HRFT. We require that HRFT is self dual, reproduce all known limits (dilute-dense and dilute-dilute) and exhibits all the symmetries of the JIMWLK Hamiltonian. We find a family of Hamiltonians which satisfy all the above requirements. One of these is identical in form to the so called “diamond action” discussed in [67, 68]. However we show by explicit calculation that the so called “diamond condition” is not satisfied beyond leading perturbative order.

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    Alex Kovner & Ming Li

  2. Departemento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, and Centro Científico-Tecnológico de Valparaíso, Avda. Espana 1680, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile

    Eugene Levin

  3. Department of Particle Physics, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Levin

  4. Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105, Beer Sheva, Israel

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Kovner, A., Levin, E., Li, M. et al. Reggeon field theory and self duality: making ends meet. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 185 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2020)185

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