title: Model-independent results for SU(3) violation in light-cone distribution functions.
abstract: Using chiral symmetry we investigate the leading SU(3) violation in light-cone distribution functions phi(M)(x) of the pion, kaon, and eta. It is shown that terms nonanalytic in the quark masses do not affect the shape, and only appear in the decay constants. Predictive power is retained including the leading analytic m(q) operators. With the symmetry violating corrections we derive useful model-independent relations between phi(pi),phi(eta),phiK+(,K0), and phiK(0)(,K-). Using the soft-collinear effective theory we discuss how factorization generates the subleading chiral coefficients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and National Center for Theoretical Sciences at Taipei, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Jiunn-Wei
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Iain W
authors.initials: IW
authors.lastname: Stewart