Light front solution to problems of conventional approach to deep inelastic electron-deuteron scattering

I present a model light front calculation of the inelastic electron-deuteron scattering within the conventional two nucleon approximation. The results lead to the clear interpretation of the convolution formula expressing structure functions of the deuteron by structure functions of nucleons. Several ambiguities of this formula, including the West-β correction and the Bodek ambiguity, are resolved. I use a simple quark model for the nucleon structure, guided by the counting rules. In extracting the neutron structure from the deuteron and the proton data I find that the dynamical off-shell effects in the nucleon structure functions are larger than the properly calculated smearing corrections. 22 refs., 14 figs. (author)