Comment on Multiplicities in Cheng - Wu Field Theory

It is noted that the model of Cheng and Wu used to explain high energy hadronic cross sections implies average multiplicities much smaller than those experimentally observed. (Submitted to Phys. Letters B) * Work supported by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. t National Research Council of Canada, Post doctoral Fellow. Although many types of functional s-dependence [ l] can be invoked to fit the observed rise of the pp total cross section through the ISR energy range [ 2,3] , the most exciting possibility under current consideration is that the observed structure presages an indefinitely rising cross section with a ln2s energy behavior. The energy behavior of the total cross section would thus saturate in form, if not in magnitude, the Froissart bound [ 41