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Heitler and collaborators1 have proposed a modification of radiation theory in order to remove the well-known divergencies. A variation of this procedure has been proposed by several authors2. We shall refer to these two forms as the time-dependent and the stationary form of the theory respectively.
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Heitler, W., âœThe Quantum Theory of Radiationâ (Oxford, 1944, 2nd ed., 240â246).
Pauli, W., âœMeson Theory of Nuclear Forcesâ (New York, 1946), chapter 4.
Bethe, H. A., and Oppenheimer, J. R., Phys. Rev., 70, 451 (1946).
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FERRETTI, B., PEIERLS, R. Radiation Damping Theory and the Propagation of Light. Nature 160, 531–532 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160531a0
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