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Let e(R 1,..., R k ) be the electronic contribution to the ground-state energy of a molecule consisting of one electron and k nuclei located at R 1,..., R k . It is shown that e(R 1′,...,R k ′)⩾e(R 1,...,R k ) if |R i ′ − R j ′| ⩾ |R i − R j | for all pairs i,j.
Work partially supported by US National Science Foundation Grant PHY-7825390 A02.
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Lieb, E.H. (1997). Monotonicity of the molecular electronic energy in the nuclear coordinates. In: Thirring, W. (eds) The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03436-1_5
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