Polarized and Unpolarized Structures of the Virtual Photon

Abstract

We discuss the structure functions and the parton distributions in the virtual photon target, both polarized and unpolarized, beyond the leading order in QCD. We study the factorization-scheme dependence of the parton distributions.

Comments: 6 pages, LaTeX, 4 postscript figures, uses aipproc.sty, Talk given at "PHOTON2000", Ambleside, UK, August 2000, to appear in the proceedings