Abstract
Single and double spin asymmetries in the elastic electron-deuteron (
e
-
d
) scattering were investigated. The tensor-deuteron asymmetries
T
2
i
(
i
= 0, 1, 2) and the beam-vector-deuteron asymmetries
T
e
1
i
(
i
= 0, 1) were calculated and compared with the available experimental data. The sensitivity of the results for these spin asymmetries to the deuteron wave function has been investigated. The predicted asymmetries were found to be agree with one another and with experiment. It was found that, the double spin asymmetry
T
e
10
is much smaller than the
T
e
11
-asymmetry. Therefore, in addition to the single tensor-deuteron asymmetry
T
20
, the doubly beam-vector-deuteron asymmetry
T
e
11
can be used as an another tool for extracting the deuteron electromagnetic form factors.