S-channel discontinuities of reggeon diagrams with planar vertices

Abstract

The mutual relations between s-channel discontinuities of reggeon diagrams with planar triple-Regge vertices are discussed. It is shown that, in general, contributions coming from different cuttings are not simply related to each other as certain vertices acquire non-trivial phase factors depending on the nature of the cutting. For diagrams with only triple-Regge vertices this phase may be related to the triple-Regge phase. The complete four-reggeon vertices are not known in general. An approximation is considered which amounts to preserving only the absorptive part of triple- or four-reggeon amplitudes in certain parts of the diagrams. This approximation turns out to be equivalent to a simple absorbed multiperipheral model. The problem of exchange degeneracy breaking within the dual unitarisation Scheme is briefly discussed as an example.