The appearance of the triangle graph infra-red axial anomaly in reduced quark
loops contributing to QCD triple-regge interactions is studied. In a dispersion
relation formalism, the anomaly can only be present in the contributions of
unphysical triple discontinuities. In this paper an asymptotic discontinuity
analysis is applied to high-order feynman diagrams to show that the anomaly
does indeed occur in sufficiently high-order reggeized gluon interactions. The
reggeon states involved must contain reggeized gluon combinations with the
quantum numbers of the anomaly (winding-number) current. A direct connection
with the well-known U(1) problem is thus established. Closely related diagrams
that contribute to the pion/pomeron and triple pomeron couplings in color
superconducting QCD are also discussed.Comment: 52 pages, 29 PS figures in the tex