In a recent paper, Dokshitzer and Marchesini rederived the
anomalous dimension matrix for colour evolution of gg→gg scattering, first derived by Kidonakis, Oderda and Sterman.
They noted a weird symmetry that it possesses under interchange of
internal (colour group) and external (scattering angle) degrees of
freedom and speculated that this may be related to an embedding into
a context that correlates internal and external variables such as
string theory.
In this short note, I point out another symmetry possessed by all
the colour evolution anomalous dimension matrices calculated to
date. It is more prosaic, but equally unexpected, and may also
point to the fact that colour evolution might be understood in some
deeper theoretical framework. To my knowledge it has not been
pointed out elsewhere, or anticipated by any of the authors
calculating these matrices. It is simply that, in a suitably chosen
colour basis, they are complex symmetric matrices.