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The Hartree-Fock Theory for Coulomb Systems

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For neutral atoms and molecules and positive ions and radicals, we prove the existence of solutions of the Hartree-Fock equations which minimize the Hartree-Fock energy. We establish some properties of the solutions including exponential falloff.

Research partially supported by U.S. National Science Foundation Grant MCS-75–21684

Research partially supported by U.S. National Science Foundation under Grants MPS-75–11864 and MPS-75–20638. On leave from Departments of Mathematics and Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

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    Elliott H. Lieb

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    Barry Simon

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Lieb, E.H., Simon, B. (2001). The Hartree-Fock Theory for Coulomb Systems. In: Thirring, W. (eds) The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04360-8_21

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