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Participant 6 (P6) ================== Prof. A.Ya. ... The recent works of the team on the subject of the project are as follows: Task 1 (Light scattering theory) An important approximation for optically soft particles (S-approximation or Perel'man approximation) was developed in the paper of Perel'man ("Extinction and scattering by soft particles." ... Opt., v. 30, 475, 1991). ... Physics Lett., v. 11, 790, 1985; "Light scattering by two layers dielectric particles with continuous optical properties." ...