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Existence and nonexistence in the liquid drop model

Analysis of PDEs 2021-01-07 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We revisit the liquid drop model with a general Riesz potential. Our new result is the existence of minimizers for the conjectured optimal range of parameters. We also prove a conditional uniqueness of minimizers and a nonexistence result for heavy nuclei.

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@article{arxiv.2101.02163,
  title  = {Existence and nonexistence in the liquid drop model},
  author = {Rupert L. Frank and Phan Thành Nam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.02163},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages

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