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Some aspects of the influence of ionic vibrations on transitions of trapped electrons are surveyed mainly from a theoretical point of view. After a discussion of the significance and the validity of the adiabatic approximation radiative transitions are treated on the basis of Lax's general expression for the moments of the spectral distribution. The first two of these are explicitely calculated for...