Description of F2 and the gluon at small x

Abstract

We give a brief overview of the perturbative QCD description of the proton deep-inelastic structure function F2(x, Q2) at small x. We discuss GLAP and BFKL approaches, and then we review progress towards a more unified treatment.

Comments: 4 pages in LATEX, using qcdparis.sty. Four figures included in tarred, compressed, and uuencoded file. Replaced in correct format for producing postscript version