Analyticity and the Isgur-Wise Function

Abstract

We reconsider the recent derivation by de Rafael and Taron of bounds on the slope of the Isgur-Wise function. We argue that one must be careful to include cuts starting below the heavy meson pair production threshold, arising from heavy quark-antiquark bound states, and that if such cuts are properly accounted for then no constraints may be derived.

8 pages, uses harvmac, SLAC-PUB-5956, UCSD/PTH 92-35, CALT-68-1830