Integrable structures and duality in high-energy QCD Original Research Article

We study the properties of color-singlet Reggeon compound states in multicolor high-energy QCD in four dimensions. Their spectrum is governed by a completely integrable (1+1)-dimensional effective QCD Hamiltonian whose diagonalization within the Bethe Ansatz leads to the Baxter equation for the Heisenberg spin magnet. We show that the nonlinear WKB solution of the Baxter equation gives rise to the same integrable structures as appeared in the Seiberg-Witten solution for N = 2 SUSY OCD and in the finite-gap solutions of the soliton equations. We explain the origin of hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces out of QCD in the Regge limit and discuss the meaning of the Whitham dynamics on the moduli space of quantum numbers of the Reggeon compound states, QCD Pomerons, and Odderons.