The formation stage of corona breakdown when a D. C. impulse is applied to a negative point-to-plane in air is discussed theoretically, in the similar way as Miyoshi's theory on the uniform field breakdown. The electrodes are approximated by confocal parabolloids of rotation.
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Makisaburo Ogasawara (1966) studied this question.
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