Singularities of Regge Trajectories and Asymptotes to Landau Curves

Abstract

A new class of singularities associated with the trajectories and residues of particular Regge poles is investigated. It is shown that the singularities are associated with properties of asymptotes to Landau curves. One of the singularities corresponds to the singularity of the Regge amplitude discovered recently by Islam, Landshoff, and Taylor. The only singularities affecting physical asymptotic behavior correspond to diagrams which have all three Mandelstam spectral functions.