Electroproduction final states as ω → 1

The successful model of Barbour and Moorhouse for pion photoproduction is extended to electroproduction and combined with recent ideas on configuration mixing or SU(6) breaking in deep inelastic electroproduction as ω → 1. We find that two consequences obtain in the current fragmentation region as ω → 1: (a) the missing mass spectrum in ep → eπ^?X and en → eπ⁺X will be featureless (phase space); (b) in ep → eM^+,0X and en → eM^0,?X for any non-strange meson M the missing hadron system will contain only octets. Hence, in particular, ep → eπΔ will vanish relative to ep → eπ⁺n as ω → 1. For K production only Λ and no Σ final states will be produced.