The primary effect [1] of the Lorentz-Lorenz formula, rewritten here to express the relative dielectric permittivity ε(ω) in terms of the mean molecular polarizability α(ω) as

with the single resonance Lorentz model of the molecular polarizability

is to downshift the effective resonance frequency and increase the strength of the low frequency behavior from that described by the Lorentz model approximation

Here ω ₀ is the undamped resonance frequency of the harmonically bound electron of charge magnitude q_e and mass m_e with number density N, phenomenological damping constant δ and plasma frequency $b=\sqrt{\frac{4\pi N{q}_e^2}{m_e}}$ . The approximate expression given in Eq. (3) is obtained from Eq. (1) with Eq. (2) when the inequality b ²/(6δω ₀)≪1 is satisfied. The Lorentz-Lorenz relation (1) with the Lorentz model (2) of the molecular polarizability gives the relative dielectric permittivity as

where the undamped resonance frequency is denoted in this expression by ω _*. The value of this resonance frequency ω _* that will yield the same value for ε(0) as given by Eq. (3) is given by [1]

This approximate equivalence relation provides a “best fit” in the rms sense between the frequency dependence of the Lorentz-Lorenz modified Lorentz model dielectric and the Lorentz model alone [1] for both the dielectric permittivity and the complex index of refraction $n\left(\omega \right)=\sqrt{\epsilon \left(\omega \right)}$ along the positive real frequency axis.

The branch points of the complex index of refraction for the single resonance Lorentz model dielectric with dielectric permittivity described by Eq. (3) are given by

and the branch points of the complex index of refraction for the Lorentz-Lorenz modified Lorentz model dielectric with dielectric permittivity described by Eq. (4) are given by

If ω _*=ω ₀, then the branch points of n(ω) for the Lorentz-Lorenz modified Lorentz model are shifted inward toward the imaginary axis from the branch point locations for the Lorentz model alone provided that the inequality ${\omega }_{*}^2$-b ²/3-δ ²≥0 is satisfied. If the opposite inequality ${\omega }_{*}^2$-b ²/3-δ ²<0 is satisfied, then the branch points ${\omega }_p^{\pm \prime }$ are located along the imaginary axis.

If ω _* is given by the equivalence relation (5), then the locations of the branch points of the complex index of refraction n(ω) for the Lorentz-Lorenz modified Lorentz model and the Lorentz model alone are exactly the same. The branch cuts for these two models are then also the same (or can be chosen so). It then follows that the analyticity properties for these two causal models of the dielectric permittivity are the same. This important result is central to the asymptotic description of both ultrawideband signal and ultrashort pulse propagation in Lorentz model dielectrics, particularly when the number density of molecules is large.