Introduction

The area of the relativistic theory of atoms and molecules, with its contacts “upstream” to relativistic quantum mechanics and QED, and “downstream” to atomic and molecular physics and all branches of heavy-element chemistry, has now become so vast that a detailed exposition of the entire domain by the same author is hardly thinkable. The purpose of the present compilation is to make available the comprehensive bibliography, assembled by the author over the years, on the art of solving the Dirac equation, or approximations thereof, for atoms and molecules.