The density in a one-dimensional potential

DOI10.1006/AIMA.1994.1061MaRDI QIDQ1340669zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charles Fefferman, L. Seco

Publication date 18 December 1994

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/4db14d80a6bdcd454dea040144e2c8aa736cb8fc

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic formulaestimates for the eigenvaluesground-state energy of an atomnormalized eigenfunctionsthe density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General spectral theory of ordinary differential operators (34L05) Asymptotic distribution of eigenvalues, asymptotic theory of eigenfunctions for ordinary differential operators (34L20) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Atomic physics (81V45)

Review text

In [ibid. 95, No. 2, 145-305 (1992; Zbl 0797.34083)] we proved precise estimates for the eigenvalues \(E_ k\) and normalized eigenfunctions \(\varphi_ k\) of an ordinary differential operator \(H = - d^ 2/dx^ 2 + V(x)\) on an interval \(I_{\text{BVP}}\). In this paper, we apply these results to study the density \[ \rho (x) = \sum_{E_ k \leq 0} | \varphi_ k (x) |^ 2. \] We introduce a simple approximation \(\rho_{sc} (x)\) and estimate \(\rho-\rho_{sc}\). Our goal is proving the asymptotic formula announced in [Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 23, No. 2, 525-530 (1990; Zbl 0722.35072)] for the ground-state energy of an atom. This requires estimates for \(\rho - \rho_{sc}\) in weighted Sobolev norms of order \(-1\), which we derive here. The complete proofs of the results are given here and in a series of further papers.

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