On higher-order flavour-singlet splitting and coefficient functions at large x
Abstract
We discuss the large-x behaviour of the splitting functions Pqg and Pgq and of flavour-singlet coefficient functions, such as the gluon contributions C2,g and CL,g to the structure functions F2,L, in massless perturbative QCD. These quantities are suppressed by one or two powers of 1-x with respect to the 1/(1-x) terms which are the subject of the well-known threshold exponentiation. We show that the double-logarithmic contributions to Pqg, Pgq and CL at order alphas4 can be predicted from known third-order results and present, as a first step towards a full all-order generalization, the leading-logarithmic large-x behaviour of Pqg, Pgq and C2,g at all orders in alphas.
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