Exact asymptotic behavior of the Pekar-Thomasevich functional

Series
Math Physics Seminar
Time
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 4:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Rafael D. Benguria – Physics Department, Catholic University of Chile
Organizer
Michael Loss
An explicit asymptotic expression for the ground-state energy of the Pekar-Tomasevich functional for the N-polaron is found, when the positive repulsion parameter U of the electrons is less than twice the coupling constant of the polaron. This is joint workwith Gonzalo Bley.