Physical Picture for High-Energy Diffraction Scattering

Recent theoretical results on high-energy scattering are extended. We give explicit rules to obtain the high-energy behavior of the sums of large classes of Feynman diagrams. This consideration suggests, for high-energy diffraction scattering, a physical picture which is simple and natural. We emphasize that this physical picture has the virtue of yielding correctly all the high-energy results of quantum electrodynamics.