A general problem concerning the diffusion of light in a finite plane-parallel atmosphere illuminated by an arbitrarily polarized radiation field is formulated. A decomposition in the azimuthal angle is used to reduce the problem to a set of radiative transfer equations, for the Stokes parameters, based on real quantities.
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C. E. Siewert (1981) studied this question.