Relativistic Kramers-Pasternack Recurrence Relations

Abstract

Recently we have evaluated the matrix elements $<Or^{p}>$,$ where $O$ $={1,\beta, i\mathbf{\alpha n}\beta} $ are the standard Dirac matrix operators and the angular brackets denote the quantum-mechanical average for the relativistic Coulomb problem, in terms of generalized hypergeometric functions $_{3}F_{2}(1) $ for all suitable powers and established two sets of Pasternack-type matrix identities for these integrals. The corresponding Kramers--Pasternack three-term vector recurrence relations are derived here.