Ground-states for the liquid drop and TFDW models with long-range attraction

DOI10.1063/1.4999495zbMATH Open1374.76036arXiv1707.06674OpenAlexW2738525707MaRDI QIDQ4592886FDOQ4592886

Authors: Lia Bronsard, Ihsan Topaloglu, Stan Alama, Rustum Choksi 

Publication date: 9 November 2017

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that both the liquid drop model in $mathbb{R}^3$ with an attractive background nucleus and the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizs"{a}cker (TFDW) model attain their ground-states emph{for all} masses as long as the external potential $V(x)$ in these models is of long range, that is, it decays slower than Newtonian (e.g., $V(x)gg|x{|}^{-1}$ for large $|x|$.) For the TFDW model we adapt classical concentration-compactness arguments by Lions, whereas for the liquid drop model with background attraction we utilize a recent compactness result for sets of finite perimeter by Frank and Lieb.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06674

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45)

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