The Road to Stueckelberg's Covariant Perturbation Theory as Illustrated by Successive Treatments of Compton Scattering

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We review the history of the road to a manifestly covariant perturbative calculus within quantum electrodynamics from the early semi-classical results of the mid-twenties to the complete formalism of Stueckelberg in 1934. We chose as our case study the calculation of the cross-section of the Compton effect. We analyse Stueckelberg's paper extensively. This is our first contribution to a study of his fundamental contributions to the theoretical physics of twentieth century.
This paper is a "working-physicist" version of a paper to be published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

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History and Philosophy of Physics

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/87756

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https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9903023
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