Chaos is Target-Blind in High-Energy QCD Evolution
Abstract
Chaotic evolution measures how rapidly nearby configurations separate, but the existence of such rapid evolution does not by itself determine what physical information the evolution actually carries. For fixed-coupling JIMWLK evolution with fresh transverse-local, color-isotropic noise, we show that this distinction becomes exact - leading to a no go theorem. At finite rapidity step and finite transverse regulator, the exact linearized update depends on the Wilson-line background only through local adjoint rotations of fresh color-isotropic noise. Once the past is conditioned upon, these rotations leave the complete local noise measure invariant, so the tangent process has the same probability law for any target ensemble evolved with the same regulated fixed-coupling dynamics, including dilute and saturated ensembles. After the exact global color-rotation mode is removed, the reduced tangent process found to have a positive leading Lyapunov exponent which indicate chaotic evolution. Fixed-coupling JIMWLK therefor can be dynamically chaotic while its tangent-only statistics carry no information about the target ensemble. Spatially nonlocal noise however evades the argument because correlations between distinct sites leave relative Wilson lines in the conditional covariance.
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BibTeX
@misc{abir2026chaos,
title = {{Chaos is Target-Blind in High-Energy QCD Evolution}},
author = {Raktim Abir},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.05306},
eprint = {2609.05306},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05306},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Chaos is Target-Blind in High-Energy QCD Evolution
AU - Raktim Abir
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/04
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.05306
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05306
AB - Chaotic evolution measures how rapidly nearby configurations separate, but the existence of such rapid evolution does not by itself determine what physical information the evolution actually carries. For fixed-coupling JIMWLK evolution with fresh transverse-local, color-isotropic noise, we show that this distinction becomes exact - leading to a no go theorem. At finite rapidity step and finite transverse regulator, the exact linearized update depends on the Wilson-line background only through local adjoint rotations of fresh color-isotropic noise. Once the past is conditioned upon, these rotations leave the complete local noise measure invariant, so the tangent process has the same probability law for any target ensemble evolved with the same regulated fixed-coupling dynamics, including dilute and saturated ensembles. After the exact global color-rotation mode is removed, the reduced tangent process found to have a positive leading Lyapunov exponent which indicate chaotic evolution. Fixed-coupling JIMWLK therefor can be dynamically chaotic while its tangent-only statistics carry no information about the target ensemble. Spatially nonlocal noise however evades the argument because correlations between distinct sites leave relative Wilson lines in the conditional covariance.
ER -