On the Hartree-Fock equations of the electron/positron field

J. -M. Barbaroux; W. Farkas; B. Helffer; H. Siedentop

doi:10.1007/s00220-004-1156-x

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On the Hartree-Fock equations of the electron/positron field

arXiv:math-ph/0404009 · doi:10.1007/s00220-004-1156-x

Abstract

We study the energy of relativistic electrons and positrons interacting via the second quantized Coulomb potential in the field of a nucleus of charge Z within the Hartree-Fock approximation. We show that the associated functional has a minimizer. In addition, all minimizers are purely electronic states, they are projections, and fulfill the no-pair Dirac-Fock equations.