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Complex moments of parton distributions and new sum rules
Author(s) -
C. Bourrely,
Jacques Soffer,
Tai Tsun Wu
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.59.2009
Subject(s) - parton , physics , particle physics , analytic continuation , quark , quantum chromodynamics , statistical physics , sum rule in quantum mechanics , gluon , distribution (mathematics) , qcd sum rules , distribution function , quantum mechanics , mathematics , mathematical analysis
The Q/sup 2/ evolution of quark and gluon distributions predicted by perturbative QCD is reexamined by consideration of the complex moments of these distributions. This analytic continuation leads us to derive several interesting new sum rules which depend on the number of flavors.

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