Existence of a stable polarized vacuum in the Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock approximation

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 515-562

  Hainzl, Christian ^a,b   Lewin, Mathieu ^a   Séré, Éric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

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EID: 21244459255     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: 14320916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-005-1343-4     Document Type: Article

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