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Remark 2.8 . [03GQ]

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Remark 2.8.

The asymptotics in Theorem 2.6 have an intuitive electro-magnetic interpretation. Namely, for |z||z| large, the electric potential determined by the union of point charges on Λ×{z0}\Lambda\times\{z_{0}\} is approximated by an evenly distributed charge on the corresponding plane ℂ×{z0}\mathbb{C}\times\{z_{0}\} in the universal cover. The electric potential of this uniformly charged plate corresponds to the linear term in V∞V_{\infty}. Further, for any number of charged plates parallel to the x​yxy-plane located at z=ziz=z_{i}, i=1,…,m0i=1,\ldots,m_{0}, we can add together the corresponding ViV_{i} to get the potential V=V1+⋯+Vm0V=V_{1}+\dots+V_{m_{0}}, and the potential at large distances looks like the potential due to m0m_{0} uniformly charged plates.

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