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Historical pseudo simplified solution of the Dirac-Coulomb equation

General Physics 2011-11-10 v3

Abstract

One of the simplified solutions of the Dirac equations with the pure Coulomb potential given in a paper published in 1985 is pseudo. The original paper solved the Dirac equations by introducing a transformation of functions with two strange parameters a and b to transform the original system of the first-order differential equations into two uncoupled differential equations of second order. However, not only the given eigenvalues sets violate the uniqueness of solution but also the said second-order equations are not any necessarily mathematical deduction. In order to determine the introduced parameters, formally, the author actually introduced some self-contradictory mathematical formulas, such as sinh(theta)=2ab, cosh(theta)=a^2+b^2, tanh(theta)=-Z(alpha)/k, a^2-b^2=1, b=sinh((theta/2), a=cosh((theta/2). But one has not known the value of the parameters a and b all the while, whereas the parameters were insensibly deleted in the given second-order Dirac-Coulomb equation last. One cannot recover any result given in the paper by making corresponding correctly mathematical calculations.

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@article{arxiv.0707.0156,
  title  = {Historical pseudo simplified solution of the Dirac-Coulomb equation},
  author = {Ruida Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0156},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, no figure, 35 equations. The v1 version entitled "A hidden incorrect solution of second-order Dirac-Coulomb equation with a direct transformation of functions" has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial mathematics error in equations 20

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