Integrability and WKB solution of twist - three evolution equations

Mar, 1999
26 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 558 (1999) 259-284
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Abstract:
We identify an integrable one-dimensional inhomogeneous three-site open spin chain which arises in the problem of diagonalization of twist-three quark-gluon evolution equations in QCD in the chiral-odd sector. Making use of the existence of a non-trivial `hidden' integral of motion the problem of diagonalization of the evolution kernels is reduced to the study of a second order finite-difference equation which is solved in WKB approximation for large conformal spins of the three-particle system. The energies (alias anomalous dimensions) of eigenstates with different scale dependence are found in limiting cases and compared with numerical calculations.
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  • 26 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures; typos fixed
  • 11.10.Gh
  • 11.15.Kc
  • 11.30.Na
  • 12.38.Cy
  • Twist-three operators
  • Evolution
  • Three-particle problem
  • Integrability
  • Open spin chain
  • Spectrum of eigenvalues