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In this chapter, we shall give some numerical illustrations of the three QED methods described in Part II, the S-matrix, the two-times Green’s function, and the covariant-evolution-operator methods.

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Lindgren, I. (2011). Numerical Illustrations to Part II. In: Relativistic Many-Body Theory. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 63. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8309-1_7

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