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Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the divergence difficulty of quantized field theories and the rigorous treatment of radiation reaction' by H W Peng

Reference number: RR/69/243

Date: 1945

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It makes an important contribution to the subject. The paper is 'difficult' and he found it hard to understand at points. As it will take him a while to understand it, it should be published as soon as possible.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1946].

Date received not given.

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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the divergence difficulty of quantized field theories and the rigorous treatment of radiation reaction' by H W Peng, 1945, RR/69/243, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_243/referees-report-by-paul-adrien-maurice-dirac-on-a-paper-on-the-divergence-difficulty-of-quantized-field-theories-and-the-rigorous-treatment-of-radiation-reaction-by-h-w-peng, accessed on 12 November 2025

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