EXISTENCE AND CONVERGENCE RESULTS FOR THE GALERKIN APPROXIMATION OF AN ELECTRONIC DENSITY FUNCTIONAL

DOI10.1142/S021820251000491XzbMath1208.82063OpenAlexW2118220336MaRDI QIDQ3070049

Bernhard Langwallner, Christoph Ortner, Endre Süli

Publication date: 2 February 2011

Published in: Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s021820251000491x

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear eigenvalue problemGalerkin discretizationThomas-Fermi type functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Newton-type methods (49M15) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Numerical methods for eigenvalue problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N25)

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