High-Energy Elastic Scattering in Quantum Electrodynamics

We have examined all two-body, elastic-scattering amplitudes in quantum electrodynamics. Aside from the photon-pole contribution, the amplitude for any elastic process is imaginary and proportional to $s$ in the limit $s\to \infty$ with $t$ held finite. The coefficients of $s$, to the lowest nonvanishing orders of $e$, can be expressed simply in terms of "impact factors." The results contradict both the Regge-pole model and the droplet model in their most straightforward interpretations.