La. Sakhnovich, ON PROPERTIES OF THE DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS-SPECTRUM FOR THE RADIAL DIRAC-EQUATION, Theoretical and mathematical physics, 108(1), 1996, pp. 876-888
To characterize the Dirac radial equation spectrum, we introduce the n
otion of a quantum defect delta(k), which is a generalization of this
notion for the Schrodinger radial equation. The existence of delta(k)
is proved and explicit formulas for calculating delta(k) are found for
a broad class of potentials.