Dispersion sum rules for the amplitudes of radiative transitions in quarkonium

A dispersion approach is suggested, based on the asymptotic freedom in QCD and on analyticity, which leads to sum rules for the amplitudes of radiative transitions in quarkonium $\text{(}\text{c}\text{c}\text{,}\text{b}\text{b}\text{, …)}$ and allows one to estimate these amplitudes in a model-independent way. As an example such sum rules are derived for the ${}^3\text{P}{}_0\text{?}{}^3\text{S}{}_1$ and ${}^3\text{S}{}_1\text{?}{}^1\text{S}{}_0$ transitions. For charmonium they agree with the available data and with the predictions of nonrelativistic models.