====== TTP97-18 Heavy Quark Current Correlators to ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^2)$ ====== In this paper the three-loop polarization functions \Pi(q^2) are calculated for the cases of an external vector, axial-vector, scalar or pseudo-scalar current. Results are presented for the imaginary part which directly leads to the cross section $\sigma(e^+e^- \to Z \to hadrons)$ and to the Higgs decay rates, respectively. |**K.G. Chetyrkin, J.H. Kuehn, M. Steinhauser** | |** Nucl. Phys. B505 40-64 1997 ** | | {{preprints:1997:ttp97-18.pdf|PDF}} {{preprints:1997:ttp97-18.ps|PostScript}} [[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9705254|arXiv]] | | |