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Emergent Local Phase-Space Scaling in Small-x Gluon Evolution

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-06-30 v1

Abstract

Geometric scaling is a central output of nonlinear small-xx evolution, but it is less clear whether the same dynamics fixes a probability distribution in transverse phase space. Using fixed-coupling impact-parameter BK evolution in the SO(3)SO(3)-symmetric construction, we build a normalized gluon Husimi phase-space distribution and resolve it with a local coarse graining whose ultraviolet boundary follows Qs(Y,b)Q_s(Y,b). The main result is a distribution-level one: after this QsQ_s-adaptive resolution, the conditional momentum distributions collapse as functions of k/Qs(Y,b)k/Q_s(Y,b). The conditional entropy then grows with unit slope relative to lnQs2\langle\ln Q_s^2\rangle, as the integrated consequence of that collapse and the two-dimensional momentum measure. Fixed laboratory cutoffs do not show this law, while dense-rapidity, cutoff-window, box-size, regulator-shape, and Husimi-resolution scans keep the QsQ_s-adaptive result stable in the controlled window. Within this fixed-coupling SO(3)SO(3)-BK setting, the result identifies a local phase-space scaling structure of the gluon Husimi distribution rather than a universal law for unregulated global entropy.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2606.31754,
  title  = {Emergent Local Phase-Space Scaling in Small-x Gluon Evolution},
  author = {Lei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.31754},
  year   = {2026}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables; includes Supplemental Material