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View SchemaThe Road to Stueckelberg's Covariant Perturbation Theory as Illustrated by Successive Treatments of Compton Scattering
| Authors | J. Lacki, H. Ruegg, V. Telegdi |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/9903023 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9903023 |
Abstract
We review the history of the road to a manifestly covariant perturbative calculus within quantum electrodynamics from the early semi-classical results of the mid-twenties to the complete formalism of Stueckelberg in 1934. We chose as our case study the calculation of the cross-section of the Compton effect. We analyse Stueckelberg's paper extensively. This is our first contribution to a study of his fundamental contributions to the theoretical physics of twentieth century.
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