We present a phenomenological space-time analysis of high-energy scattering. For a two-body process $a+b\to c+d$, the off-shell amplitude $A(\nu , \kappa , {\kappa }^{\prime }, t)$ [$\nu \equiv (p_a+p_c)·p$, $p\equiv p_b+p_d$, $\kappa ={(p_a+p_c)}^2$, $t={\Delta }^2={(p_c-p_a)}^2$, ${\kappa }^{\prime }=(p_a+p_c)·\Delta ={p_c}^2-{p_a}^2\equiv {\kappa }_c-{\kappa }_a$] is written in terms of its Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmermann correlation function $\mathcal{F}(z·p, z·\Delta , z^2, t)$. The properties of $A(\nu , \kappa , \dots )$ in the $R$-limit ($\nu \to \infty$, with $\kappa$, ${\kappa }^{\prime }$, and $t$ fixed) and in the $A$-limit ($\nu \to \infty$, $\omega \equiv -\frac{\kappa }{2\nu }$, ${\kappa }^{\prime }$, and $t$ fixed) are translated into space-time properties of $\mathcal{F}\mathrm{}\left(z\right)\mathrm{}$. By combined use of the assumed Regge ${\nu }^{\alpha \mathrm{}\left(t\right)\mathrm{}}$ $R$-limit behavior, scaling ${\nu }^{\rho -2\mathrm{}}F\left(\omega \right)$ $A$-limit behavior, as well as of the assumed Regge small-$\omega$ $A$-limit behavior ${\lim }_{\omega \to 0}{\lim }_{A}A(\nu , \kappa , \dots )={\lim }_{\kappa \to \infty }{\lim }_{R}A(\nu , \kappa , \dots )$, we determine the form of $\mathcal{F}\mathrm{}\left(z\right)\mathrm{}$ in the interesting space-time regions to be ${\left(z·p\right)}^{\alpha \mathrm{}\left(t\right)\mathrm{}}g(z·\Delta , z^2, t)$ as $\left(z·p\right)\to \infty$ and $f_{\rho }(z·p, z·\Delta , t){\left(z^2\right)}^{-\rho }$ near the light cone (LC) $z^2=0\mathrm{}$, with $f_{\rho }(\lambda , 0, t)\sim {\lambda }^{\alpha \mathrm{}\left(t\right)\mathrm{}}$ as $\lambda \to \infty$. This latter property of $f_{\rho }$ is shown to uniquely correspond to having quark-hadron amplitudes with Regge behavior, at least in quark models for light-cone operator-product expansions. The large-$z^2$ behavior of $\mathcal{F}\mathrm{}\left(z\right)\mathrm{}$ is determined from the assumed Regge behavior of the pole-dominance approximation to $A(\nu , \kappa , \dots )$, and we again find a ${\left(z·p\right)}^{\alpha \mathrm{}\left(t\right)\mathrm{}}$ large-($z·p$) behavior of $\mathcal{F}\mathrm{}\left(z\right)\mathrm{}$ in this region. The emerging picture is simply summarized by setting $\mathcal{F}\mathrm{}\left(z\right)\mathrm{}\cong f_{\rho }(z·p, 0, t)g(z·\Delta , z^2, t)$ with $g(z·\Delta , z^2, t)\sim {\left(z^2\right)}^{-\rho }$ near the LC. The only important space-time regions for high-energy scattering are the regions $z·p\sim O\left(\nu \right)$, which is shown to determine the moving Regge poles, and $z^2\cong 0$, which is shown to give rise to a fixed-pole behavior if and only if $\alpha \mathrm{}\left(t\right)<\rho -2\mathrm{}$. We also consider the high-energy limit of semiweak exclusive processes, and show that, contrary to existing claims, such processes need not scale.

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