An information bound for multiplicities in rapidity windows of the dipole cascade behind the entanglement entropy picture

Abstract

In Mueller's dipole cascade without transverse dimensions, with one counted particle for each dipole produced in a window, the multiplicities in three consecutive rapidity windows are Poisson counts of one Gamma-distributed source. We show that at fixed middle multiplicity the outer two share less information than the Gaussian value $-\tfrac12\ln(1-ρ^2)$ of their partial correlation, a value that second moments alone determine. For windows of one common width at a constant splitting rate this value never exceeds $\tfrac12\ln(4/3)$. The Gaussian value is not a bound on mutual information in general, and for a source of the same mean and variance with another law the information can exceed it. The law of the counts keeps its form under migration of particles across window edges and detection losses when both act on each particle independently of the others and of the source, and its factorial cumulants of second and third order test necessary conditions for it. In Monte Carlo simulations of the cascade with transverse dimensions at leading logarithmic accuracy and fixed coupling, the counts are not Poisson counts of one source, so the bound is a result of the model without them. In the model without transverse dimensions the law also fixes the normalized second factorial cumulant of one window at $1/k$, with $k$ the number of initial dipoles. The values of this cumulant formed from the mean and variance that H1 publishes for deep inelastic scattering lie far below the value one of a cascade from a single initial dipole with one counted particle for each dipole produced in a window. The quantity bounded is a classical conditional mutual information between counted multiplicities.