On convergence properties of GPD expansion through Mellin/conformal moments and orthogonal polynomials

Abstract

We examine convergence properties of reconstructing the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) through the universal moment parameterization (GUMP). We provide a heuristic explanation for the connection between the formal summation/expansion and the Mellin-Barnes integral in the literature, and specify the exact convergence condition. We derive an asymptotic condition on the conformal moments of GPDs to satisfy the boundary condition at x=1 and subsequently develop an approximate formula for GPDs when x>ξ. Since experimental observables constraining GPDs can be expressed in terms of double or even triple summations involving their moments, scale evolution factors, and Wilson coefficients, etc., we propose a method to handle the ordering of the multiple summations and convert them into multiple Mellin-Barnes integrals via analytical continuations of integer summation indices.

Keywords

• Parton distributions
• GPDs global analysis
• Properties of hadrons
• QCD phenomenology