Gluonic Pole Matrix Elements and Universality

We investigate the spectral properties of quark-quark-gluon correlators and use this to study gluonic pole matrix elements. Such matrix elements appear in principle both for distribution functions such as the Sivers function and fragmentation functions such as the Collins function. We find that for a large class of spectator models, the contribution of the gluonic pole matrix element for fragmentation functions vanishes. This result is important in the study of universality for fragmentation functions.