Hydrogenic Wave Functions

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Abstract

This chapter summarizes the solutions of the one-electron nonrelativistic Schrödinger equation, and the one-electron relativistic Dirac equation, for the Coulomb potential. The standard notations and conventions used in the mathematics literature for special functions have been chosen in preference to the notations customarily used in the physics literature whenever there is a conflict. This has been done to facilitate the use of standard reference works such as Abramowitz and Stegun [9.1], the Bateman project [9.2,3], Gradshteyn and Ryzhik [9.4], Jahnke and Emde [9.5], Luke [9.6,7], Magnus, Oberhettinger, and Soni [9.8], Olver [9.9], Szego [9.10], and the new NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions project, which is preparing a hardcover update [9.11] of Abramowitz and Stegun [9.1] and an online digital library of mathematical functions [9.12]. The section on special functions contains many of the formulas which are needed to check the results quoted in the previous sections, together with a number of other useful formulas. Itincludes a brief introduction to asymptotic methods.

References to the numerical evaluation of special functions are given.

Abbreviations

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

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  1. 1.Saint PaulUSA

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