Soft gluon resummation for polarized deep-inelastic production of heavy quarks

We present the threshold resummation for the cross section of heavy quark production in polarized deep-inelastic scattering to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy and in single-particle inclusive kinematics. We expand our resummed result in a, to next-to-leading and next-to-next-to-leading order and study the impact of these higher order corrections on the charm structure function g(1)(c) in the kinematical range accessible to the HERMES and COMPASS experiments. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.