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Stationary solutions of the Schr\"{o}dinger-Newton model - An ODE approach

Mathematical Physics 2008-02-13 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We prove the existence and uniqueness of stationary spherically symmetric positive solutions for the Schr\"{o}dinger-Newton model in any space dimension dd. Our result is based on an analysis of the corresponding system of second order differential equations. It turns out that d=6d=6 is critical for the existence of finite energy solutions and the equations for positive spherically symmetric solutions reduce to a Lane-Emden equation for all d6d\geq 6. Our result implies in particular the existence of stationary solutions for two-dimensional self-gravitating particles and closes the gap between the variational proofs in d=1d=1 and d=3d=3.

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@article{arxiv.0712.3103,
  title  = {Stationary solutions of the Schr\"{o}dinger-Newton model - An ODE approach},
  author = {Philippe Choquard and Joachim Stubbe and Marc Vuffray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.3103},
  year   = {2008}
}