Towards deep-inelastic structure functions at three loops

Abstract

We report on the status of the calculation of deep-inelastic structure functions at three loops in perturbative QCD. The method employed allows to calculate the Mellin moments of structure functions analytically as a general function of N. As an illustration, we present the leading fermionic contributions to the non-singlet anomalous dimension of F_2 at three loops and, as a new result, to the non-singlet coefficient function of F_2 at three loops.

Latex, 5 pages, Presented at DIS2002, Cracow, 30 April - 4 May 2002