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We prove the limiting absorption principle for a dressed electron at a fixed total momentum in the standard model of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics. Our proof is based on an application of the smooth Feshbach-Schur map in conjunction with Mourre’s theory.
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Chen, T., Faupin, J., Fröhlich, J. et al. Local Decay in Non-Relativistic QED. Commun. Math. Phys. 309, 543–582 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-011-1339-1
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