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Solutions of the Maxwell equations describing the spectrum of hydrogen

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We obtain a new class of solutions of the Maxwell equations describing the spectrum of hydrogen. We prove that, instead of the quantum-mechanical Dirac equation, the ordinary classical Maxwell equations can be applied to the solution of many problems in atomic and nuclear physics.

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Institute of Electron Physics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Uzhgorod. Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 7, pp. 958–969, July, 1997.

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Simulik, V.M. Solutions of the Maxwell equations describing the spectrum of hydrogen. Ukr Math J 49, 1075–1088 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02528753

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