Solution

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Use the small-angle, thin gravitational lens equation geometry. An undeflected ray seen at angular position would have transverse source position . Bending that ray through physical angle at the lens changes its source intercept by . Thus
and the required physical deflection is
Also . Define the reduced deflection as the angular difference . Dividing the first equation by gives
These are angular diameter distances; in a cosmological spacetime one must not replace by as if the distances were ordinary collinear Euclidean lengths.

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