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The concept stems from a construction based on an infinite coupling of harmonic oscillators (and one later proves that quantized electromagnetism can be seen as a countable infinite collection of harmonic oscillators).
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da Costa, N.C.A., Antonio Doria, F. (2022). Field Theory. In: On Hilbert's Sixth Problem. Synthese Library, vol 441. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83837-9_9
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