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Two scenarios for the penetration of relativistically intense laser radiation into an overdense plasma, accessible by self-induced transparency, are presented. For supercritical densities less than 1.5 times the critical one, penetration of…

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For the first time, as far as we know, in field theory are found explicit forms of propagators satisfying the K\"allen -- Lehmann representation. To be exact, it is shown that scalar meson propagators, taking into account a virtual…

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