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Random walks of partons in SU(N_c) and classical representations of color charges in QCD at small x

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arxiv hep-ph/0406169 v2 pith:G5DIA6MS submitted 2004-06-15 hep-ph hep-thnucl-th

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The effective action for wee partons in large nuclei includes a sum over static color sources distributed in a wide range of representations of the SU(N_c) color group. The problem can be formulated as a random walk of partons in the N_c-1 dimensional space spanned by the Casimirs of SU(N_c). For a large number of sources, k >> 1, we show explicitly that the most likely representation is a classical representation of order O(\sqrt{k}). The quantum sum over representations is well approximated by a path integral over classical sources with an exponential weight whose argument is the quadratic Casimir operator of the group. The contributions of the higher N_c-2 Casimir operators are suppressed by powers of k. Other applications of the techniques developed here are discussed briefly.

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