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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=physics">physics</a>, the <b>plane-wave expansion</b> or <b>Rayleigh expansion</b> expresses a <a href="page.php?w=plane_wave">plane wave</a> as a <a href="page.php?w=linear_combination">linear combination</a> of <a href="page.php?w=spherical_wave">spherical wave</a>s:</p>

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*  is the <a href="page.php?w=imaginary_unit">imaginary unit</a>,<br/>
*  is a real or complex <a href="page.php?w=wave_vector">wave vector</a> of length ,<br/>
*  is a <a href="page.php?w=position_vector">position vector</a> of length</p><p>
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