Dirac-Coulomb operators with general charge distribution. I: Distinguished extension and min-max formulas

DOI10.5802/ahl.106zbMath1486.81094arXiv2003.04004WikidataQ113689241 ScholiaQ113689241MaRDI QIDQ2077195

Maria J. Esteban, Mathieu Lewin, Éric Séré

Publication date: 24 February 2022

Published in: Annales Henri Lebesgue (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04004

zbMATH Keywords

self-adjointness; Dirac-Coulomb operators; min-max formulas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81Q05: Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics

49J35: Existence of solutions for minimax problems

47A10: Spectrum, resolvent

47B25: Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded)

81R25: Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory

81R20: Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics