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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.
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Communicated by J. Glimm
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, NJ08540, USA
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Lieb, E.H., Simon, B. The Hartree-Fock theory for Coulomb systems. Commun.Math. Phys. 53, 185–194 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01609845
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