Heinz Siedentop, Edgardo Stockmeyer The Douglas-Kroll-He{\ss} Method: Convergence and Block-Diagonalization of Dirac Operators (290K, pdf) ABSTRACT. We show that the Douglas-Kroll block-diagonalization method for the Dirac operator with Coulomb potential is convergent in norm resolvent sense for coupling constant $\gamma$ less than $\gamma_c=0.37758$ which corresponds to atomic number $51$. Moreover, we give an explicit expression for the corresponding block-diagonalized Dirac operator.