Eur. Phys. J. C (2007) 50: 593-601
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0218-6

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Exploiting the equivalence of reggeon field theory in zero transverse dimensions and reaction–diffusion processes

¹ II Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg, 22761, Hamburg, Germany
² DESY Theory Group, 22603, Hamburg, Germany
³ Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, 30-059, Kraków, Poland
⁴ Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA
⁵ Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany

^* e-mail: motyka@mail.desy.de

Received: 15 November 2006
Revised: 6 December 2006
Published online: 13 February 2007

Abstract

The reggeon field theory in zero transverse dimensions is investigated. Two versions of the theory are considered: one that allows for at most triple pomeron interactions and the other that embodies an additional 2→2 quartic reggeon coupling. The behavior of the scattering amplitude at asymptotic rapidities is obtained in both cases. In an s-channel picture of the high energy scattering both models can be viewed as reaction–diffusion processes. We derive known results in reggeon field theory rather easily using the reaction–diffusion formalism. We find that some results which are surprising from the reggeon field theory point of view turn out to have a simple interpretation from the reaction–diffusion point of view.