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

Stan Alama, Lia Bronsard, Rustum Choksi +1

We prove that both the liquid drop model in ${\mathbb{R}}^3$ with an attractive background nucleus and the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizsäcker (TFDW) model attain their ground-states \…