Initial conditions and evolution of off-diagonal distributions

TL;DR

This paper discusses how initial conditions for off-diagonal parton distribution evolution are set and demonstrates through numerical results that evolution quickly diminishes initial differences.

Contribution

It provides a brief analysis of initial condition specification and shows that evolution reduces input differences rapidly.

Findings

Evolution rapidly washes out initial differences.

Numerical results support the quick convergence of distributions.

Initial conditions have limited long-term impact.

Abstract

We briefly discuss the problem of specifying initial conditions for evolution of off-diagonal (skewed) parton distributions. We present numerical results to show that evolution rapidly washes out differences of input.