Spin-Dependent Structure Functions of the Photon

Abstract

The implications of the positivity constraint on the presently unknown polarized structure function of the photon, $g_1^{\gamma}(x,Q^2)$, are studied in detail. In particular the non-trivial consequences of this constraint, $|g_1^{\gamma}(x,Q^2)|\leq F_1^{\gamma}(x,Q^2)$, in the next-to-leading order analysis of $g_1^{\gamma}$ are pointed out by employing appropriate (DIS) factorization schemes related to $g_1^{\gamma}$ and $F_1^{\gamma}$ (rather than to $F_2^{\gamma}$).