Variational methods in relativistic quantum mechanics

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 535-593

  Esteban, Maria J ^a   Lewin, Mathieu ^b   Séré, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

Author keywords

Critical points; Dirac operator; Dirac Fock equations; Ground state; Mean field approximation; Non relativistic limit; Nonlinear eigenvalue problems; Quantum chemistry; Relativistic quantum mechanics; Strongly indefinite functionals; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849138398     PISSN: 02730979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01212-3     Document Type: Review

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