Klein-Gordon-Schrodinger and Dirac equations

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Homework Statement


I need to solve the Klein-Gordon-Schrodinger and the Dirac equation for the Coulombian potential.

Homework Equations



KGS:
[(\partial^{\mu}\partial_{\mu} + m^2c^2/h^2)\Psi=0
I don't know how I can add the potential term...

Dirac:
[\gamma^{\mu}(ih\partial_{\mu} - (e/c) A_{\mu})-mc)]\Psi=0

The Attempt at a Solution



I'm trying to do something with these equations in order to make them with a Schrodinger-like form. For the Dirac eq., I found the hydrogen atom resolved in Sakurai's book, but I could not understand what they did (they took about 10 pages) and I wonder if there is another (easier) way to do this.
 
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There really isn't anu other way. A book solving both equations for the Coulomb potential is Greiner's "Relativistic Quantum Mechanics - Wave equations".
 
dextercioby said:
There really isn't anu other way. A book solving both equations for the Coulomb potential is Greiner's "Relativistic Quantum Mechanics - Wave equations".

Thanks. I'll look for this book online, 'cos I don't have it... :(
 
To solve this, I first used the units to work out that a= m* a/m, i.e. t=z/λ. This would allow you to determine the time duration within an interval section by section and then add this to the previous ones to obtain the age of the respective layer. However, this would require a constant thickness per year for each interval. However, since this is most likely not the case, my next consideration was that the age must be the integral of a 1/λ(z) function, which I cannot model.
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