Relationship between anomalous factor and alpha

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Hello everyone. Maybe you can help me with the following. In the case of the electron, is there any known mathematical relationship between anomalous factor and fine structure constant?
 
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Thank you ! The wikipedia article exposes the result for a one loop. And for this case indicates that
[tex]a_e \simeq \dfrac{\alpha}{2 \pi}[/tex]
Let us not think how laborious can be the exact calculation. I am interested only in the concept. Does that mean the following? : there are valid reasons to accept that it really should be
[tex]a_e = \dfrac{\alpha}{2 \pi}[/tex]