The dipole picture of high energy scattering, the BFKL equation and many gluon compound states Original Research Article

The relationship and equivalence between the BFKL and dipole equation kernels are investigated by means of explicit calculations in light-cone perturbation theory. A dipole equation, equivalent to the usual equation, for interactions between four reggeized gluons is given in the large Nc limit. The leading trajectory of the four-gluon system is bounded by 2αp − 1 with αp the BFKL pomeron intercept.