Solution

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The anti-muon has the same charge as a proton, so the Coulomb potential seen by the electron is the same as in the hydrogen atom. The main difference is the source mass. Separating the centre-of-mass motion replaces by the Coulomb two-body reduced mass
Since , this is close to , though less close than the electron-proton reduced mass. The smaller reduced mass gives a slightly larger Bohr radius and energies of slightly smaller magnitude. Under the assumptions in the question, the Coulomb form, angular eigenfunctions and quantum numbers are otherwise unchanged; anti-muon decay and spin effects are being neglected.

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