Yangian symmetry applied to quantum chromodynamics

Abstract

We review applications of Yangian symmetry to high-energy Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phenomenology. Some basic facts about high-energy QCD are recalled, in particular the spinor-helicity form of scattering amplitudes, the scale evolution equations of deep-inelastic scattering structure functions and the high-energy asymptotics of scattering. As the working tool the Yangian symmetric correlators are introduced and constructed in the framework of the Yangian algebra of [Formula: see text] type. We present the application to the tree scattering amplitudes and their iterative relation, to the parton splitting amplitudes and the kernels of the scale evolution equations of structure functions and to the equations describing the high-energy asymptotics of scattering.