The energy of heavy atoms according to Brown and Ravenhall: the Scott correction (Q845267)
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The energy of heavy atoms according to Brown and Ravenhall: the Scott correction (English)
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27 January 2010
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The key aim of the present work is to study the relativistic Brown-Ravenhall operator that describes the electronic states of heavy atoms, to compare its ground-state energy with that of the Schrödinger operator, to compare the hydrogenic Brown-Ravenhall and Chandrasekhar operators, and to prove that the subleading quasi-classical term, following the leading Thomas-Fermi term is the Scott correction.
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heavy atoms
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relativistic atom
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ground-state energy
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Schrödinger many-particle operator
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Brown-Ravenhall operator
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Thomas-Fermi model
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hydrogen atom
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Chandrasekhar model
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Scott correction
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Sobolev inequality
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