# 1 Dependence of the ‘massless parton’-type charm structure function 𝐹₂^{𝑐,𝑀⁢𝑃} in Eq. () on the switching scale 𝑄₀ in the boundary conditions in Eq. (). The solid lines represent the central value of 𝑄₀=𝑚_𝑐 and 𝐹₂^{𝑐,𝑀⁢𝑃} decreases monotonically with increasing 𝑄₀. The underlying parton distributions below 𝑄₀ are those of Ref. [].

## Acknowledgements

We thank E. Reya and I. Schienbein for valuable discussions and for carefully reading the manuscript. The work has been supported in part by the ‘Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie’, Bonn.