Emergent Local Phase-Space Scaling in Small-x Gluon Evolution
Abstract
Geometric scaling is a central output of nonlinear small- 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 -symmetric construction, we build a normalized gluon Husimi phase-space distribution and resolve it with a local coarse graining whose ultraviolet boundary follows . The main result is a distribution-level one: after this -adaptive resolution, the conditional momentum distributions collapse as functions of . The conditional entropy then grows with unit slope relative to , 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 -adaptive result stable in the controlled window. Within this fixed-coupling -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}
}
Comments
12 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables; includes Supplemental Material