The recently proposed multiperipheral theory of deep-inelastic electron-nucleon scattering is applied to deep-inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering. The behavior of the structure functions is derived in the limit of large energy $\nu (\nu \equiv \frac{p·q}{m}$, and large momentum transfer squared $q^2$, with $\omega \equiv \frac{2m\nu }{(-q^2)}$ fixed but large. In particular, scaling is derived. The model predicts that an energetic nucleon-antinucleon pair should be produced in this limit. The model also predicts that $\frac{d{\sigma }^{\nu p}}{d\left(\frac{1}{\omega }\right)}+\frac{d{\sigma }^{\nu n}}{d\left(\frac{1}{\omega }\right)}>\frac{d{\sigma }^{\overline{\nu }p}}{d\left(\frac{1}{\omega }\right)}+\frac{d{\sigma }^{\overline{\nu }n}}{d\left(\frac{1}{\omega }\right)}$ and the inequality approaches at a known rate an equality as $\omega \to \infty$. The natural scaling variable that arises in the model is $\overline{\omega }\equiv \frac{{\mathrm{}(p+q)\mathrm{}}^2}{(-q^2)}$. The generality of our derivation, in the sense of requiring only Regge behavior and a particular asymptotic off-shell dependence, is discussed. The multiperipheral theory is compared with theories based on other models.

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