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A max-min principle for the ground state of the Dirac-Fock functional

Séré, Eric; Esteban, Maria J. (2002), A max-min principle for the ground state of the Dirac-Fock functional, in Weder, Ricardo, Mathematical results in quantum mechanics : a conference on QMATH-8, mathematical results in quantum mechanics, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Taxco, México, December 10-14, 2001, American Mathematical Society : Providence, R.I., p. 350

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Communication / Conférence
Date
2002
Conference country
MEXICO
Book title
Mathematical results in quantum mechanics : a conference on QMATH-8, mathematical results in quantum mechanics, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Taxco, México, December 10-14, 2001
Book author
Weder, Ricardo
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Published in
Providence, R.I.
ISBN
0-8218-2900-9
Pages
350
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Author(s)
Séré, Eric
CEntre de REcherches en MAthématiques de la DEcision [CEREMADE]
Esteban, Maria J. cc
CEntre de REcherches en MAthématiques de la DEcision [CEREMADE]
Abstract (EN)
In this paper, we prove that, when the fine structure constant ff is small enough, the energy of the "ground state" of the Dirac-Fock model can be obtained by a nonlinear max-min principle
Subjects / Keywords
Relativistic quantum mechanics; Ground state; quantum chemistry; Dirac-Fock equations; Nonlinear eigenvalue problems; Nonrelativistic limit; variational methods