PROPERTIES OF THE HARD POMERON WITH A RUNNING COUPLING-CONSTANT AND THE HIGH-ENERGY SCATTERING

The equation for the hard pomeron with a running coupling introduced o n the basis of the bootstrap requirement is solved numerically. Two su percritical pomerons are found with the intercept minus one of the lea ding one of the order 0.35-0.5 and that of the subleading one half as large. The contribution of multipomeron exchanges is found to be essen tial only at extremely high energies of the order of 100 TeV. Comparis on of the cross-sections and structure functions to the present experi mental data seem to indicate that the asymptotical regime has not yet been achieved.