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Some reflection on the preceding chapters indicates that the Dirac equation, even modified to include external fields, is not yet complete. One of the major lessons of classical electrodynamics is that accelerated charged particles radiate (though this is not necessarily true for all charge distributions), and energy conservation alone requires the dynamical equations of motion to account for this phenomenon. Although we have paid lip service to such a requirement in Eqs.(3–110)-(3–113), a detailed study can be postponed no longer.
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Grandy, W.T. (1991). Quantum Theory of Radiation. In: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of Leptons and Fields. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3302-9_7
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