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a r X i v : h e p - p h / 9 6 0 3 3 9 7 v 2 2 6 M a r 1 9 9 6 DESY 96–040 March 1996 On the Twist-2 Contributions to Polarized Structure Functions and New Sum Rules J. Blu?mleina and N. Kocheleva,b aDESY–Zeuthen Platanenallee 6, D–15735 Zeuthen, Germany bBogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, RU–141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia Abstract The twist-2 contributions to the polarized structure functions in deep inelastic lepton– hadron scattering are calculated including the exchange of weak bosons and using both the operator product expansion and the covariant parton model. A new relation between two structure functions leading to a sequence of new sum rules is found. The light quark mass corrections to the structure functions are derived in lowest order QCD. 1 Introduction The study of polarized deep inelastic scattering off polarized targets has revealed a rich structure of phenomena during the last years [1]. So far mainly the case of deep inelastic photon scattering has been studied experimentally. A future polarized proton option at RHIC and HERA, however, would allow to probe the spin structure of nucleons at much higher Q2 (cf. [2]) also. In this range Z–exchange contributions become relevant and one may investigate charged current scattering as well. For this general case the scattering cross section is determined by (up to) five polarized structure functions per current combination, if lepton mass effects are disregarded. In previous investigations different techniques have been used to derive relations between these structure functions and discrepancies between several derivations were reported (cf. e.g. [3]). In refs. [3, 4] the structure functions were calculated in the parton model. Some of the investigations deal with the case of longitudinal polarization only [5]. In other studies light-cone current algebra [6, 7] and the operator product expansion were used [8]–[10]. Furthermore the structure functions gem1 and g em 2 were also calcu