The transition probabilities for the components of both the Balmer and Lyman ®-lines
of hydrogenic atoms are calculated for the nonrelativistic Schr¨ odinger theory, the Dirac
theory, and the recently developed eight-component (8-C) formalism. For large Z it is
found that all three theories give significantly different results.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS; Vol.40, No.8, 2001
