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A Dirac field interacting with point nuclear dynamics

Analysis of PDEs 2019-02-05 v4

Abstract

The system describing a single Dirac electron field coupled with classically moving point nuclei is presented and studied. The model is a semi-relativistic extension of corresponding time-dependent one-body Hartree-Fock equation coupled with classical nuclear dynamics, already known and studied both in quantum chemistry and in rigorous mathematical literature. We prove local existence of solutions for data in HsH^s with s>1s>1 and local well posedness in HsH^s for s>3/2s>3/2. In the course of the analysis a second new result of independent interest is discussed and proved, namely the construction of the propagator for the Dirac operator with several moving Coulomb singularities.

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@article{arxiv.1709.05317,
  title  = {A Dirac field interacting with point nuclear dynamics},
  author = {Federico Cacciafesta and Anne-Sophie de Suzzoni and Diego Noja},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.05317},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

A mistake in one of our proofs has been corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-22T21:44:42.466Z