Matching of the shape function

The shape function f(k(+)) describes Fermi motion effects in inclusive semi-leptonic decays such as B --> X-u + e + v near the end-point of the lepton spectrum. We compute the leading one-loop corrections to the shape function f(k(+)) in the effective theory with a hard cut-off regularization. The matching constant onto full QCD is infrared safe, i.e. the leading infrared singularity represented by the term log(2)k(+) cancels in the difference of integrals. We compare the hard cut-off result with the result in dimensional regularization, the latter containing an additional factor of two in the coefficient of the log(2)k(+) term, and consequently requiring an oversubtraction. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.