The two-fermion vector potential of constraint theory from Feynman diagrams

The relativistic fermion-antifermion bound state vector potential of constraint theory is calculated, in perturbation theory, by means of the Lippmann-Schwinger type equation that relates it to the scattering amplitude. Leading contributions of n-photon exchange diagrams are calculated in an approximation scheme that adaps eiikonal approximation to the bound state problem. They produce terms proportional, in three-dimensional x-space, to (αr)n. The series of leading contributions is summed.