The unpolarized two-loop massive pure singlet Wilson coefficients for deep-inelastic scattering (Q2295526)

As emphasized by the authors, the complete analytic calculation of Wilson coefficients is important in order to obtain these coefficients in at least two limiting cases, the limit of large virtualities and the threshold limit. It does not come as a surprize that the calculations, starting from a design plan by Willy van Neerven and Johannes Blümlein, took 20 years, as even the expressions presented in this publication and denoted by the authors as a ``relatively compact expression'', separated modularly into the different coefficients and occuring polynomials in the kinetic variable \(z\) fill several pages. Undisputedly, the authors have given an excellent contribution to one of the very special subjects of their field. However, it is hard to see how this publication could help other researchers to apply these valuable results. For the colleagues in the same branch of science, i.e. effective approaches for deep inelastic scattering, it would be of benefit to obtain the result not in form of a document but as input forms for at least one of the mostly used algebra programs, e.g. MATHEMATICA. On the other hand, for the researcher in a slightly different branch of science like me it would be useful to know what the three Wilson coefficients with indices 1, 2 and L describe. The reader might also be irritated by the occurence of terms like Kummer-Poincare alphabets and letters, the relation and meaning of which is only touched and not explained in detail by the authors, as they actually do not make use of this concept. But this is already a less severe problem for understanding the paper. Disregarding these deficits, the publication is a technically perfect solution of a very perticular problem in deep inelastic scattering, and I guess that scientists interested in this result can obtain source codes for the application of these results by a sending a request to the authors.