DEEP-INELASTIC SCATTERING OF LEPTONS FROM NUCLEAR TARGETS AND THE BFKL POMERON

We calculate shadowing in the process of deep inelastic interactions o f leptons with nuclei in the perturbative regime of QCD. We find appre ciable shadowing for heavy nuclei (e.g., Pb) in the region of a small Bjorken scaling variable 10(-5)less than or equal to x less than or eq ual to 10(-3). This shadowing depends weakly on Q(2), but it may be st rongly influenced, especially at x greater than or equal to 10(-3), by the existence of real parts of the forward scattering amplitudes.