On Classical Electrodynamics of Point Particles and Mass Renormalization: Some Preliminary Results

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 449-460

  Bambusi, Dario ^a   Noja, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classical electrodynamics; Dipole approximation; Mass renormalization; Point particles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007089502     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00312675     Document Type: Article

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