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A Note on the Magnetic Moment of the Electron

J. M. Luttinger

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Recent experiments seem to require a modification in the g-factor of the electron. It has been suggested that the coupling between the electron and the radiation field is responsible, and Schwinger has calculated the effect on the basis of a general subtraction formalism for the infinities of quantum electrodynamics. It is here shown that the change in magnetic moment may be derived very simply without any reference to an elaborate subtraction formalism.

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Recent experiments seem to require a modification in the g-factor of the electron. It has been suggested that the coupling between the electron and the radiation field is responsible, and Schwinger has calculated the effect on the basis of a general subtraction formalism for the infinities of quantum electrodynamics. It is here shown that the change in magnetic moment may be derived very simply without any reference to an elaborate subtraction formalism.

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Recent experiments seem to require a modification in the g-factor of the electron. It has been suggested that the coupling between the electron and the radiation field is responsible, and Schwinger has calculated the effect on the basis of a general subtraction formalism for the infinities of quantum electrodynamics. It is here shown that the change in magnetic moment may be derived very simply without any reference to an elaborate subtraction formalism.

Key concepts: Physics, Anomalous magnetic dipole moment, Formalism (music), Electron magnetic dipole moment, Electron, Quantum electrodynamics, Magnetic moment, Quantum mechanics

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