Strict monotonicity conjecture for the mass of the TFDW Euler–Lagrange solution

Let cTF>0c_{TF}>0, and for 0<μ<1564cTF0<\mu<\frac{15}{64c_{TF}} let QμQ_\mu be the unique positive solution of the associated Euler–Lagrange equation, with mass M(μ)M(\mu), and let JR3(λ)J_{\mathbb{R}^3}(\lambda) denote the TFDW variational problem at mass λ\lambda. Strict monotonicity conjecture. The function

(0;1564cTF)(0;+),μM(μ)\left(0;\frac{15}{64c_{TF}}\right)\longrightarrow(0;+\infty),\qquad \mu\longmapsto M(\mu)

is strictly increasing and one-to-one. Consequently, for any 0<μ<1564cTF0<\mu<\frac{15}{64c_{TF}}, there exists a unique minimizer QμQ_\mu of JR3(λ)J_{\mathbb{R}^3}(\lambda), up to a phase and a space translation. Numerical computations support the strict increase of MM, while the preceding result establishes only that each mass has finitely many corresponding values of μ\mu; 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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