On the odderon intercept in perturbative QCD

Abstract

Arguments are presented for the odderon intercept being exactly equal to unity. A variational method is presented based on a complete system of one-gluon functions. For the odderon, the highest intercept calculated by this method is $1-(3α_{s}/π)\,0.45$.

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