Strict monotonicity conjecture for the mass of the TFDW Euler–Lagrange solution
Strict monotonicity conjecture for the mass of the TFDW Euler–Lagrange solution
Let , and for let be the unique positive solution of the associated Euler–Lagrange equation, with mass , and let denote the TFDW variational problem at mass . Strict monotonicity conjecture. The function
is strictly increasing and one-to-one. Consequently, for any , there exists a unique minimizer of , up to a phase and a space translation. Numerical computations support the strict increase of , while the preceding result establishes only that each mass has finitely many corresponding values of ; proving strict monotonicity would yield uniqueness of minimizers modulo phase and translation.
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Julien Ricaud, “Symmetry breaking in the periodic Thomas–Fermi–Dirac–von Weizsäcker model”, arXiv:1703.07284 (2017).
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